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FlcrBE 3. — Stenella, species B, apparently adult male 

 spotted dolphin (SV-2-SF) landed at Barrouallie, St. Vin- 

 cent, in early June 1967. Lateral view of head showing 

 prominent features of pigmentation not shown (but pre- 

 sent) in the animal depicted in Figure 2. Animal in fresh- 

 ly killed condition. (Photograph by John R. Sullivan.) 



Pseudorca crassidens (OWEN) — 

 FALSE KILLER WHALE 



The Caldwells have two adult skulls, a male 

 (SV-l-PC) and a female (SV-2-PC), from an- 

 imals of unstated size taken in the fishery on 10 

 September 1970. 



Three individuals of this species were taken 

 in the fishery on 9 March 1969, and the Cald- 

 wells have several teeth (SV-3-PC) said to have 

 come from one or more of these animals. Five 

 others had been taken on 12 February and seven 

 more were obtained on 7 December 1969. 



Except for a brief mention by Caldwell and 

 Caldwell (in press), false killer whales have 

 not been reported from St. Vincent previously. 

 The closest record based on a specimen is from 

 Aves Island off the Venezuelan coast some 675 

 km to the southwest (Miller, 1920). Bruyns 

 (1969) included a sight record made at sea 115 

 km east of Tobago (some 280 km southeast of 

 St. Vincent). 



Glohicephala macrorhyncha GRAY— SHORT- 

 FINNED PILOT WHALE OR BLACKFISH 



It is upon this species that the St. Vincent 

 whale fishery is based and it is therefore by 

 far the most abundant species in the overall 

 landings in the fishery. From the fishery we 

 have eight skulls: two from males measuring 

 about 5 (SV-l-GM) and 6 (SV-2-GM) m in total 



length collected in the second week of June 1967; 

 two from females measuring about 4.5 (SV-3- 

 GM) and 5 (SV-4-GM) m collected with the 

 males; and four others (SV-5 to 8-GM) from 

 adults or near adults of unknown size and sex 

 collected in the summer of 1968. 



We have seen many carcasses of fresh-caught 

 animals and have various color and black and 

 white photographs in our files. We also have 

 examined many skulls on the St. Vincent beaches 

 where the carcasses are butchered. The car- 

 casses all have short pectoral flippers and the 

 skulls have expanded premaxillary bones cov- 

 ering the maxillaries. These characters are 

 typical of this species (see Fraser, 1950a). 



A female taken on 20 May 1968 contained a 

 male fetus measuring 69 cm in length in a 

 straight line from the anteriormost part of the 

 head to the fluke notch. The Caldwells did not 

 have facilities to preserve this specimen, but 

 have a color photograph (SV-9-GM) which 

 shows it to be a light reddish brown. 



A male measuring 4 m in total length that 

 was taken on 21 May 1968 had several of the 

 obligate cetacean barnacle {Xenobalaynis globi- 

 cipitus) on the trailing edge of its left flipper. 



We have not examined .stomach contents of 

 pilot whales landed at St. Vincent, but the whale- 

 men tell use that they include both squid (in- 

 cluding very large ones) and fish. 



Cyamid parasites and remoras have been ob- 

 served on blackfish landed at St. Vincent but 

 no specimens so far have been collected. 



Blackfish previously have been recorded from 

 or near St. Vincent by Brown (1945, 1947), 

 Hickling (1950), Fenger (1958), Morice (1958), 

 Caldwell and Erdman (1963), Allen (see foot- 

 note 5), Morris (see footnote 6), Jackson (see 

 footnote 7), Rathjen and Sullivan (1970), Cald- 

 well and Caldwell (in in'ess), and others. Al- 

 though specific identifications were not always 

 given, our experience has shown that only G. 

 macrorhyncha likely is involved. 



Obtained from the Barrouallie Fishermen's 

 Cooperative Society, catch statistics for the ])eri- 

 od 1962-1970 are included in Table 1. These 

 are pilot whales landed at Barrouallie, the main 

 whaling port of St. Vincent. The monthly var- 



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