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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Shooting a sei whale. Tliis photograph was snapped at a speed of one one-thousandth of a second just as the harpoon had struck the whale. The smoke, sparks and wads of oakum with which the gun was loaded are seen in the air. Note the whale's nostrils which are widely expanded as the animal was drawing in its breath preparatory to descending into the water called the scjhval by the Norwegians
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Sei whale drawing in its breath. widely expanded and greatly protruded 286 The nostrils are shown and the iwashi hujira .or sardine whale by the Japanese, was being taken here. This whale, although forty to fifty feet long had never before been recorded in the Pacific and although it had formed the basis of the Japanese summer fish- ery for nearly fifteen years, not a single individual had reached the attention of a scientist. Whether or not this species will prove to be synonymous with the sei whale (Balaenoptera borcalis Lesson) of the Atlantic has not yet been determined, but it is the subject of a mono- graph now in preparation.

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