92 PROF. R. COLLETT ON THE [ Jan. 12, 
last was a female, taken in August (length 54 feet, or 
16-4 metres), which contained a foetus about 1 metre in 
length; another was scarcely more than a half-grown 
young one. 
1904. Two specimens were captured to the south-east of Iceland. 
1905. (One was wounded off St. Kilda, but escaped.) 
1906. Six killed, and more seen (in company with Balenoptera 
borealis) off the Hebrides, between the 13th June and 
the 4th August. 
1907. A large number seen, and 24 killed off the Hebrides. 
The latter were of both sexes; all the females were 
gravid. 
Two specimens were also taken off the Faroe Islands, 
making 26 in all. 
1908. Several hundred seen, and 20 killed off the Hebrides, 
between June 18th and July 9th. Those killed were of 
both sexes; none of the females were gravid. 
Five specimens were also captured off Inishkea, Ireland, 
between June 8th and June 13th (among them one female 
and a young one), making 25 specimens in all. 
Whaling in the Hebrides, 1906—1908.—The largest capture of 
Nordkapers in the present day took place during the past three 
years, when a single company (at Station Buneveneader, Harris), 
came across large schools of them in the sea off the Hebrides, 
and brought back 50 (6 in 1906, 24 in 1907, and 20 in 1908). 
About these I have received some particulars from the manager, 
Capt. Carl Herlofsen. 
The six specimens in 1906 were taken on June 13th and 15th, 
July 18th and 31st, and August 4th (two on July 31st). 
In 1907, the first two specimens were captured on June 13th. 
On June 15th another two were taken, and the rest later in the 
same month, ten in all; in July fourteen were captured, the 
last on the 26th July. The 11th July was a successful day, six 
whales being captured, four of them in the course of six hours. 
In 1908, on the 13th and 22nd June, two specimens were 
taken, the remaining 18 being taken between the 3rd and the 
9th July. On two occasions five whales were killed in one 
day, namely on the 4th July (all males) and on the 7th July 
(three males and two females). 
The five specimens that were killed the same year off Ireland 
had probably been on the whaling-ground at the beginning of 
June. On the first day of whaling, the 8th June, one Nordkaper 
was taken, and the remaining four were caught within the 
next few days. They were all separate, and no schools were 
observed. 
Size-—Among the 24 specimens captured in 1907, males and 
females were in equal numbers; while of the 20 in 1908, twelve 
were males and eight females. 
