Lobster Cove at Lanesville, Cape Ann, Massachusetts Showing fishermen's boat-houses and gear From photograph by T. W. Smillie

Summer village of lobster fishermen at No Man's Land, Massachusetts Drawing by H. W. Elliott

Lobster-boiling apparatus at Portland, Maine From photograph by T. W. Smillie

The Lobster Industry. Lobster-boiling apparatus at Portland, Me. From a photograph by T.W. Smillie.

Sponges as landed by the fishermen at Key West, Fla., and ready for sale From a photograph

Sponge-loft at Key West, Florida From a photograph

Sorting, trimming, and bailing sponges at Key West, Florida

Plate 1. The Sperm Whale. Physeter Macrocephalus, L.

Plate 2. The Pygmy Sperm Whale. Kogia Goodei, True. The Blackfish. Globiocephalus melas (Traill.)

Plate 3. The capture of a school of blackfish in Cape Cod Bay.

Plate 4. The Cowfish or Grampus. Grampus griseus (Less.) Gray. The Harbor Porpoise, or Herring Hog. Phocoena Brachycion, Cope.

Plate 5. The High-Finned Killer. Orca rectipinnis, Cope. The Skunk Porpoise or Bay Porpoise. Lagenorynchus gubernator, Cope (L. perspicillatus, Cope).

Plate 6. The White Whale, or Beluga. Delphinapterus catodon, (L.) Gill. The Narwhal. Monodon monoceros, L.

Plate 7. The Bowhead or Arctic Whale. Balaena mysticetus, L. The Right Whale of the Pacific. Balaena japonica, Gray. (Eubalaena cullamach.)

Plate 8. Illustrating the use of the whalebone plates in the mouth of the Bowhead Whale.

Plate 9. The Sulphur Bottom of the Pacific. Sibbaldius sulfureus, Cope. The Humpback of the Pacific. Megaptera versabilis, Cope.

Plate 10. Cutting in a Humpback Whale at Provincetown, Mass.

Plate 11. The Finback of the Pacific. Balaenoptera velifera, Cope. The California Gray Whale, or Devil-Fish. Rhachianectes glaucus, Cope.

Plate 12. The Pacific Walrus. Odobaenus obesus (Illiger), Allen.

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

Plate 14. The California Sea Lion. Zalophus californianus (Less.), Allen.

Plate 15. The Harbor Seal. Phoca vitulina, L.

Plate 16. The Harp Seal. Phoca groenlandica, Fabricius.

Plate 17. The Ringed Seal. Phoca foetida, Fabricius.

Plate 18. The Ribbon Seal, male and female. Histriophoca fasciata (Zimmerman), Gill.

Plate 19. The West Indian Seal. Monachus tropicalis, Gray.

Plate 20. The Hooded Seal. (Adult and young.) Cystophora cristata (Erxl.), Nilss.

Plate 21. The Gray Seal. Halichoerus gripus (Fabricius), Nilss.

Plate 22. The Square Flipper Seal. Erignathus barbatus (Fabricius), Gill.

Plate 23. The Sea Elephant. Macrorhinus angustirostris, Gill.

Plate 24. A map of the world showing the geographical distribution of the Hair Seal family.

Plate 25. A map of the world showing the geographical distribution of the walruses, fur seals, sealions, and sea elephants.

Plate 26. The countenance of Callorhinus. A life study of an adult male fur seal.

Plate 27. The Fur-seal. Callorhinus ursinus. a. Old "Seecatch" or male, 8 to 24 years old; b. Young "See-catch" 6 to 8 years old; c. "Holluschickie", or young males, 2 years old; d. "Matkah" or mother nursing her pup; e. "Cow" fanning herself; f. "Cow" sleeping; g. "Cow" napping and fanning herself; h. "Cow crooning to the male.; j. characteristic position of old males.

Plate 28. Sundry seal sketches on the Pribylov Islands.

Plate 29. Hauling and breeding grounds of the fur-seal.

Plate 30. The north shore of St. Paul's Island, Pribylov Group. Looking over a wing of the great Norastoshoah Rookery.

Plate 31. Pelagic attitudes of the fur-seal. 1. Position while sleeping. 2. Position when rising to breathe, survey, &c. 3. Position when scratching. 4. "Dolphin jumps."

Plate 32. Fur-seals sporting around the "Bidarrah." A view of the Reef Point and Gorbatch Rookery on the horizon.

Plate 33. The Manatee. Trichechus manatus, L. Manatee feeding.

Plate 34. Manatees swimming.

Plate 35. The Sunfish. Mola rotunda, Cuvier.

Plate 36. The Swell-fish or Burr-fish. Chilomycterus geometricus (Schneider), Kaup.

Plate 37. The Trunk-fish or Cow-fish. Ostracion quadricornis, L.

Plate 38. The Trigger-fish. Balistes capriscus, Gmelin.

Plate 39. The Sea Horse. Hippocampus heptagonus, raf.

Plate 40. The Goose-fish or Bellows-fish. Lophius piscatorius, L.

Plate 41. The American Sole or "Hog Choker." Achirus lineatus, Cuv.

Plate 42. The American Plaice or Turbot-Flounder. Paralichthys dentatus, (L.), Jordan and Gilbert.

Plate 43. The Four-Spotted Flounder. Paralichthys oblongus, (Mitch.), Jordan and Gilbert.