LIST OF PLATES. 



(Engraved by the Photo-Engraving Company of New York City.) 



[The plates are honnd together In the accompanying volume. The flgnres at the right refer to the pages of the text npon which 



the species illnstrated are described.] 



Page. 



1. The Sperm Whale, Physeter viacrocejjlwlus L 7 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals of the Northwest Coast, plate xiv. 



2. The Pygmy Sperm Whale, Kogia Goodd True 11 



Drawing by H. L. Todd, from No. 13738, TJ. S. National Museum. Stranded at Spring Lake, New Jersey, April 27, 1883. 

 The Blackfish, Globiocephalus melas (Traill) '. 11 



Prom Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 8, plate 30. 



3. The capture of a school of Blackli.sh iu Cape Cod 12 



Drawing by Henry W. Elliott, from a sketch by John S. Ryder. 



4. The Cowfish or Grampus, Grampus griaeus (Less.) Gray 13 



Outline by Henry W. Elliott, from cast No. 12839, V. S. National Museum. 

 The Harbor Porpoise, or ' ' Herriris Hog," Phoccena brachycion Cope ■ 14 



Outline by Heniy W. Elliott, from photograph by IT. S. Fish Commission. 

 6. The Skunk Porx)oise or Bay Porpoise, Lagenorhynchus gubemator Cope (= L. perspicillatus Cope) 16 



Outline from plate iv, Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1876. 

 The High-finned Killer, Orca rectipinnis Cope 17 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals of the Northwest Coast. 

 The Sperm Whale Porpoise, ffyperaodon bidens Owen 18 



Sketch by James Henry Blake, 1869, from specimen stranded at North Dennis. 



6. The White Whale, or Beluga, DelpMnapterus calodon (L.) Gill 18 



Outliue by Henry W. Elliott, from cast No. 12490, TJ. S. National Museum, obtained near Quebec, 1875. » 



The Narwhal, Monodon movoceros L ■ 19 



Sketch by Henry W. Elliott, adapted from Vogtand Specht's "Saugethiere," p. 236. 



7. The Bowhead or Arctic Whale, Balwna mysticetiis L 20 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate xL 



The Eight Whale of the Pacific, BalCBnajaponicaGTay. (Eubalima cullamach) 24 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate xii. ^ 



8. Diagrams illustrating the use of the whalebone plates in the mouth of the Bowhead Whale 22 



From sketches by Captain David Grey in Land and Water, December 1, 1877. 

 (Upper.) The Bowhead with its mouth open. 

 (Lower.) The Bowhead with its mouth shut. 



9. The Humpback of the Pacific, Megaptera versaUlis Cope 26 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate vii. • 



The Sulphur Bottom of the Pacific, Sibbaldius sul/ureus Cope '. 27 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate xiii. 



10. Cutting in a Humpbnck Whale at Provincetown, Massachusetts 28 



From a sketch by John S. Eyder. 



11. The Finback of the Pacific, Balcenoptera velifera Cope... 28 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate ii. ' 



The California Gray Whale or Devil-fish, Bhaohianeetes glaucus Cope 31 



Outline from Scammon's Marine Mammals, plate il ^ 



12. The Pacific Walrus, Odobmnus obesua (lUiger) Allen 34 



Sketch by Henry W. Elliott, Walrus Island, Alaska, July 5, 1872. 



,13. Steller's Sea Lion, Eumetopias Stelleri (Less.) Peters 38 



Sketch from life by Henry W. Elliott. 



14. The California Sea Lion, Zalophus eali/ornianus (Le8s.)Allen 44 



Sketch from life by Henry W. Elliott. 



16. The Harbor Seal, Phoca viiuHna L '. -. 56 



Sketch from life by Henry W. Elliott, Alaska, 1872. 



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