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least seems likely to have been there, for as Capt. Bull suggests, 

 their presence may have been connected with the quantity of 

 herrings observed and caught during the same time, from Bodo 

 up to Lodingen. 



Capt. Bull reports that from the latter half of June, through 

 July, a number of Rudolphi's Rorquals were seen round Loppen 

 Island, and in Soro Sound, also by Skjaervo in Kvenangen Fjord, 

 right up to Reisen. A reference to the list at the end of this 

 paper will show that he captured the astonishing number of 110 of 

 this species ! Capt. Berg says that in July they were sometimes 

 seen in small numbers to the eastward of the North Cape ; the 

 average take of this species for the companies of which I have 

 returns — omitting Capt. Bull's — being about 4f per vessel. Of 

 course the fact must not be lost sight of, that these smaller whales 

 are not hunted when bigger game is to be found. 



Capt. Bull captured his last Rudolphi, and his last whale for 

 the season, on August 12th ; his first Rudolphi was obtained on 

 May 21st. Of the two remaining species, his first Common 

 Rorqual was killed on April 16th, and his last on August 6th; 

 his first Humpback — his first whale for the season — on March 

 28th, and his last on August 7th. 



Capt. Bull sends me an interesting note, in addition to the 

 above, of which the following is a translation: — "In West Fin- 

 marken Common Rorquals generally come under the coast in the 

 month of Jul}', at the same time that Rudolphi's Rorquals usually 

 leave the coast. This year, on the contrary, the Rudolphi's were 

 under the land right up to the middle of August, and in July the 

 Blue Whales came under the land, while, meantime, the Common 

 Finners only presented themselves to the extent of a couple of 

 individuals." In former seasons Capt. Bull, in his West Fin- 

 marken cruising-grounds, only obtained two or three examples of 

 the Blue Whale each year, but between the 8th and 29th July last 

 he captured no less than seventeen of these leviathans. The above 

 he considers as a (further) proof that Blue Whales and Rudolphi's 

 live on the same kind of "kril" (= Thysanopoda intermix). 



Humpbacks. — Capt. Horn obtained — Males: March 3 J st, 42 

 Norw. ft. ; April 2nd, 44 ft. Females: April 3rd, 36 ft.; May 

 22nd, 28 ft.; June 21st, 45 ft. (containing male foetus 1 ft. 1 in. 

 long); July 15th, 44 ft. (containing female foetus 1 ft. 1 in. long) ; 

 27th, 37 ft.; and 31st, 4i ft. (the last whale of the season). 



