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Index 



Bottle-nose Whale, 66 

 Bowhead Whale, 39-50 

 Brama, 272 



Bridgetown, flying-fish at, 230 

 • Britannia," 286 

 Burbot, 290 



Burn-Murdoch, cry of, 95 

 By Reef and Palm, no 



'Cachalot,' 318 



Campbell Island, 84 



Cape Hens, 338, 340 



Cape Pigeons, 350, 359-367 



Captains Courageous, 281 



Carlisle Bay, 185 



Cavall6, 327 



Cephalopoda, 127, 132, 134-136 



Cetomimus, 155 



' Challenger,' the, 146, 154, 163 



Chelone imbricata, 123 



Chelonophagi, 123 



Chiasmodon niger, 153 



Chimaeras, Deep-Sea, 146-164 



Regalecus, 152 



Chiasmodon niger, 153 



Rondeletia, 155 



Cetomimus, 155 



Simenchelys, 155 



Eurypharynx, 155 



Pelicanoides, 156 



Saccopharynx flagellum, 1 56 



Alepisaurus ferox, 156 



Frost-fish, 158 



Benthodesmus Atlanticus, 159 



Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, 



159 

 Tile-fish, 159 



Mancalius Uranoscopus, 163 

 Corynolophus Rdnhardtii, 164 

 Melanocetus Johnsonii, 164 

 Liocetus Murrayi, 164 



Chinese fishermen, 123 



Clupea alba, 305 



Clupea pilchardus, 297 



' Cockney,' anecdote of, 226 



Cod, 274-290 

 fecundity of, 275 

 food of, 276, 280, 286 

 fishing for, 276, 281, 2'82 

 decrease of, 277 



CaA— {continued') 



numbers of, 280 



cod-Uver oil, 284 



varieties of, 287 



size of, 290 

 Corynolophus Reinhardtii, 164 

 Cotyphaena, 67 

 Coryphaena equisetus, 250 

 Coryphaena hippurus, 250 

 Crabs, 418 



Crusades, tribute to, 81 

 Crustacea, tiny, 41 

 Cuttle-fish, food for sperm 



whales, 24 



description of, 127-145 



species of, 132 



Pliny on, 136 



stories of, 137-140 



fecundity of, 141 



their scent of musk, 142 



mode of reproduction, 143 



Dactylopterus orientalis, 236 

 Dactylopterus volitans, 236 

 Dcedalus, the, 176 

 Darwin, Charles, on frigate bird, 



408 

 Decapods, description of, 132 



range of, 1 33 



food of, 134 

 Delphinidae, 66 



species of, 67 



foes of, 69 



cannibalism of, 69 

 Derelict, quoted, 421 

 Dog Fish, 113 

 Dolphins, the, 66, 238-255 



species of, 67 



fins of, 69 



cannibalism, 69 



description of, 238 



colours of, 239 



scales of, 240 



medial line, 240 



fins of, 240 



shape of, 241 



breeding-places, 241 



range of, 242 



fishing for, 244, 248, 254 



cannibalism of, 246 



