782 



BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Delphinus delphis Linnaeus. Common dolphin. 



G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 7 (no local records). 



Dr. True furnishes the following record : " Woods 

 Hole, Mass., September 29, 1884. Male and 

 female. Skeletons in U. S. National Museum, 

 received from U. S. Fish Commission. (These 

 may have merely been brought into Woods 

 Hole from some other place)." He also cites 

 several captures of this species in adjacent 

 parts of the ocean, beyond the limits of this 

 region, strictly speaking. 



Family MURID^. 



Fiber zibethicus (Linnaeus). Muskrat. 



G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 17 (no local records). 



Lackeys Bay, in marsh; Great Pond; Waquoit 

 Bay; TisburyPond; Chilmark Pond ; Herring 

 Pond (at Edgartown"). V. N. Edwards. 



Builds nests from dead eelgrass, marsh grass, etc. , 

 at first forming a solid heap, which is then ex- 

 cavated. These animals are trapped through- 

 out the winter. 



I 



Family PHOCID^. 



Phoca -vitulina Linnaeus. Harbor seal. 

 H. M. Smith, 1900, G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 20 (no 



local records). 



Scraggy Neck; Lackeys Bay; Woods Hole Har- 

 bor; common some years, a herd of 100 or more 



Phoca vitulina Continued. 



being sometimes seen in Buzzards Bay. Ap- 

 pear in middle of October or first of November 

 and continue till April or May; never seen in 

 summer. Caught in fyke nets or gill nets; in 

 the former case they drown ; in the latter case 

 they are frequently caught alive, 21 specimens 

 being thus taken by Mr. Edwards within two 

 weeks during January, 1887. Smith. A 

 specimen was shot by Mr. E. F. Locke within 

 the " basin " of the local pier on December 24, 

 1907. 



f Cystophora cristata (Erxleben). Hooded seal, 



crested seal. 



G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 21 (no local records). 

 To this species perhaps belongs a seal said by Mr. 



V. N. Edwards to be several times as large as 



the harbor seal and seen by him during more 



than one season in Lackeys Bay. 



Family MUSTELID/E. 



Putorius mson lutreocephalus (Harlan). Little 



brown mink. 



G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 25 (no local records). 

 Nonamesset Island, in gutters and salt sands. 



V. N. Edwards. Devils Foot Island, in Woods 



Hole Harbor. F. B. Summer. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FAUNAL CATALOGUE. 



(Restricted almost wholly to papers recording the occurrence of species within the 

 region comprised by the present report.) 



ADAMS, C. B. 



1839. Observations on some species of the marine shells of Massachusetts, with descriptions of five 



new species. Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. H, p. 262-288, pi. v. 



1840. Descriptions of thirteen new species of New England shells. Ibid., vol. HI, p. 318-332, 



pi. in. 

 AGASSIZ, A. 



1865. North American Acalephse. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 



Harvard College, no. 2, 1865, p. xiv + 234. Cambridge. 

 AGASSIZ, L. 



1860-1862. Contributions to the natural history of the United States, vol. in and iv. Little, Brown 



& Co., Boston. 

 ALLEN, G. M. 



1904. Fauna of New England. 3. List of the Mammalia. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society 



of Natural History, vn, no. 3, p. 1-35. 



1909. Fauna of New England, n. List of the Aves. Ibid., vn, no. n, p. 1-230. 

 ALLEN, J. A. 



1870. Notes on Massachusetts reptiles and batrachians. Proceedings of the Boston Society of 



Natural History, vol. 13, p. 260-263. 



1878. A list of the birds of Massachusetts, with annotations. Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 

 vol. 10, p. 3-37. Salem, Mass. 



