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Aleutians and near Kocliak, and he said that they were common 

 in Captains Harbor, at Unalaska, where they came up close 

 to the wharf. He stated that two were caught on hooks baited 

 for codfish. 



On May 23, 1937, among the Shumagin Islands, we saw 2 

 of these porpoises near our ship, and, on August 13, 1937, 3 were 

 seen in the harbor at Atka Island. 



Phocoenoides dalli: Dall Porpoise 



The type locality for Dall porpoise is near Adak Island, but 

 we did not find them plentiful in the Aleutians. On July 20, 1936, 

 a school of these porpoises was playing about the ship, between 

 Kasatochi and Atka Islands, and a few were seen in the Aleutians 

 in 1937. On August 8, 1938, Scheffer recorded two porpoises north 

 of Yunaska Island. We found them to be much more plentiful in 

 the waters of southeastern Alaska. Walker (unpublished notes) 

 likewise found them scarce in southwestern Alaska, and, during 

 a 3-month cruise in the summer of 1922, in a small boat between 

 Juneau and Unalaska, he saw these porpoises only once. He 

 wrote that Captain T. S. Haynes did not recall having seen dalli 

 in Bering Sea and said they are not plentiful along Alaska 

 Peninsula. 



Walker found that one male weighed 199 pounds, and he 

 measured the length of four specimens as follows : male, 1,760 

 mm.; female, 1,575 mm.; female, 1,817 mm.; and another (sex 

 unknown), 1,880 mm. 



The stomach of one of Walker's specimens contained only the 

 flesh and beaks of squids. One contained mainly squid, with a 

 trace of fish; one contained squid and a few bones of fish; and 

 another contained a few squid beaks and at least V2 pound of 

 small fish. 



Family MONODONTIDAE 

 Delphinapterus leucas: White Whale (Beluga) 



Aleut (dialect?) : Hd-thakh (Turner) 

 Russian: Bi-loo-hah (Buxton) 



We saw no white whales on any of our expeditions. Osgood 

 (1904, p. 27) wrote: 



White whales or belugas often came into the mouth of the Nushagak River or 

 the neighboring small bays in pursuit of salmon, on which it is said to feed 

 quite extensively . . . Belugas are said to occur also on the south side of the 

 peninsula, about the mouth of Cook Inlet. 



