Island (lat. 41°00' N, long. 72°05' W), 30 August 



1978. 

 17. On Nantucket Island, Eel Point (lat. 41°17' 



N, long. 70°05' W), approximately 200 cm speci- 

 men (NEA MH78143), sex unknown. The strand- 

 ing took place on 4 September 1978. 



The Virginia stranding extends the southern 

 distribution approximately 700 km southwest of 

 Schevill's (1956) sighting. These reportings south 

 of lat. 41° N indicate that the range of the Atlantic 

 whitesided dolphin is farther south than the Cape 

 Cod area thus extending the range into the Middle 

 Atlantic Bight. 



There were two previous published records 

 which had placed this species farther south than 

 Schevill's reporting; however, these appear to be 

 erroneous. True (1885) reported a series of skulls of 

 L. perspicillatus (= L. acutus) taken in a net 

 fishery at Fort Macon, N.C. That collection of 

 skulls, now in the USNM, were examined and 

 determined to be bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops 

 truncatus (Mead 1975). Rhoads (1903) listed L. 

 acutus as possibly occurring off the coast of New 

 Jersey based upon an illustration in Godman 

 ( 1828). An examination of the original illustration 

 indicates that the species depicted was a common 

 dolphin, Delphinus delphis. 



These occurrences, as far south as the 

 Chesapeake Bight, indicate the southernmost 

 known extent of the Atlantic whitesided dolphin 

 distribution along the western North Atlantic. It 

 appears from this information that the Atlantic 

 whitesided dolphin has a peak occurrence in the 

 Mid-Atlantic Region during spring and summer. 



This work was supported in part by the U.S. 

 Marine Mammal Commission, Contract Number 

 MM5AC008 with the New England Aquarium. 



Acknowledgments 



The authors wish to express their gratitude to 

 W. E. Schevill, Woods Hole Oceanographic In- 

 stitution, for stranding data from the MCZ. We 

 especially thank P. Connor, New York State 

 Museum, and A. Cooley, Bellport High School, 

 Bellport, Long Island, N. Y., for their contributions 

 of Long Island stranding information. We thank 

 E. E. Britton, Chincoteague National Wildlife 

 Refuge for the information of the Virginia strand- 

 ing and G. K. Mahoney, Fisheries Management 

 Division, NMFS, NCAA, for his constructive criti- 

 cism. 



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ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF THE SCULPIN 



PSYCHROLUTES PHRICTUS IN THE EASTERN 



BERING SEA AND OFF OREGON 



Psychrolutes phrictus Stein and Bond is an unusu- 

 ally large Psychrolutes known heretofore from 

 deep water between Monterey, Calif., and north- 

 ern Oregon. The species can be distinguished from 

 its only congener, P. paradoxus, by differences in 

 relative head length, gill raker and pectoral fin 

 ray counts, and the presence of small cirri on both 

 head and body. Recent collections in the Bering 

 Sea and off Oregon supplement the type- 

 description and contribute new information on 

 range and early life history. 



During a 2-mo period (summer 1978), while a 

 member of the foreign fisheries observer staff of 



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