Index 



425 



Dolphins — {continued) 



numbers of, 247 



food of, 248 



flesh of, 249 



species of, 250 



life of, 252 



as food, 25; 

 Drevar, Captain, on sea-serpents, 



173 

 Dugong, 73, 74 



Eckineis remora, 273 

 Edinburgh to the Antarctic, 95 

 Elephant Seal. See Sea Ele- 

 phant. 

 Etnysaura serpentina, 121 

 Engraulis, 307 

 Eskimo, hunters of walrus, 81 

 Eudyptila minor, 398 

 Eurypharynx, 155 

 Exocetae, iSj 

 Exocetus nigricans, 228 

 Exocetus volitans, 222 



Fernando do Noronha, 99 

 Finback Whale, the, visit of, 60 

 Fishes, deep-sea, 146-164 

 Fishing, a grand day's, 326 

 Flat-fishes, 325 

 Flat-head, the, 144 

 Floating island, a, 213 

 Flounders, 326 

 Flying-fish, 221-237 



powers of, 221 



E. volitans, 222 



description of, 223 



velocity of, 225 



bladders of, 226 



spawning place of, 227 



fecundity of, 228 



E. nigricans, 228 



fishing for, 229-233 



range of, 234 



numbers of, 234 

 French whalers, 48 

 Fresh-water Herring, 308 

 Frigate Bird, 403-416 



range of, 405 



character of, 40;, 409 



description of, 406 



Frigate Bird — (continued) 



eggs of, 411 



old birds, 412 



a comic scene, 415 

 Frost-fish, 158 

 Fucus natans, 417 

 Fulmar Petrel, 335, 373 



Gadidae, 274 



Gar-fish, 261 



Giant Petrel, 335 



Giant Skate, 98, no 



Globicephalus, 71 



Gloucester, Mass., fishermen of, 



282 

 Goode, Mr., in, 159, 179, 310, 



325 

 Gosse, Mr., 173 

 Grampus, the, 67 

 Great Auk, 397 

 Greenland Whale. See Right 



Whale 

 Greenlander's tribute of walrus 



tusks, 81 

 Grenadines, the, 117 

 Grien, M., 168 

 Groper, 327 

 Gulfweed, 417, 418 

 Giinther, Dr., on sharks, 109 



on deep-sea fishes, 146 



on oar-fish, 352 



on herring, 291 

 Gurnard, red, 235 

 Gurnard, sapphirine, 235 

 Gymnopus, 121 



Haddock, 275, 278 

 Hake, 275 

 Halibut, 325 

 Halicore, 73 



food of, 74 

 Harbinger, the, 112 

 Harp Seal, 90 

 Hartwig, Dr., on cod, 274 



on albatross, 335 



on penguins, 399 



Hawk's-bill Turtle, 123 

 ' Helen McGregor,' 316 

 Herring, 291-309 



trade in, 292-294, 296 



