Acosta, Joseph de, fable of Indians killing whales, 27,

31, 35, 37, 41, 42

Agaphelidæ, 47

Agaphelus, 80, 104, 105, 270, 287

Agaphelus gibbosus, 47, 56, 104, 105

measurements of, 106
note on, 103

Agaphelus glaucus, 80, 81, 104

Alaska, whales of, 33

Aleutian Islands, whales at the, 33
Allen, J. A., bibliography of cetology, 62

list of cetaceans of Massachusetts, 58
opinion regarding Balana cisarctica,
264

Amagansett, Long Island, whales sighted off, 63
Ambergris, 35

American cetaceans, first references to, 6
American specimens of Balanoptera physalus, 131
American whale fishery, Clark's history of the, 68
Douglass's remarks on the,
71

Felt's notes on the, 72
Lanman on the, 76
Starbuck's history of the, 68

American zoologists, writings of, on whalebone

Balana, Flower's remarks on, 63
mentioned by Bonnaterre, 45

Brisson, 40

Erxleben, 42

species of, distribution of, 56

Van Beneden on the geographical distribu-
tion of, 57

Balana albicans, 42

Balana antipodarum, 265

Balana antipodum, 266

Balaena australis, 50, 63, 263, 265, 266
Balana biscayensis, 15, 39, 55, 57, 60, 244, 262
Basque fishery for, 13

ribs, Gasco's description of, 257

Balana boöps, 41, 46, 51, 61, 243
Balana cisarctica, 3, 55, 56, 57, 60, 63, 78, 79, 263-267
description of the type-skeleton
of, 79

measurements of the type-skele-

ton of, 79