Outlines of Whales in the Fishery - Bowhead (Balaena mysticetus</i>), California Gray Whale (Rhachianectes glaucus), Fin-back or Oregon Finner (Balaenoptera velifera), North Pacific Humpback (Megaptera versabilis), Pacific Right Whale (Balaena japonica), Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus), Sulphur-bottom (Sibbaldius sulfurens)

Whaling Source Whalesite

Plate 184

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THE WHALE FISHERY.
Outlines of Whales in the Fishery

Outlines from Scammon's Marine Mammalia.

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Fig. 1. The Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

Fig. 2. The California Gray Whale (Rhachianectes glaucus).

Fig. 3. The North Pacific Humpback (Megaptera versabilis).

Fig. 4. The Sulphur-bottom (Sibbaldius sulfurens).

Fig. 5. The Bowhead (Balaena mysticetus).

Fig. 6. The Fin-back or Oregon Finner (Balaenoptera velifera).

Fig. 7. The Pacific Right Whale (Balaena japonica).

Source.

George Brown Goode.
The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.
Section V, History and Methods of the Fisheries ... Plates.
1887.
At head of title page: "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner."
Also on title page: "Prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates."
Also published as: Serial Set Vol. No. 2003, (47th Congress, 1st Session. Vol. No. 11, Misc.Doc. 124, pt. 7.)
288 p.
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Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Dec 26 2022