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of Comparative Zoology. A few weeks later Professor Cope obtained 

 another that was stranded near Newport, R. I. 



32. [Beluga canadensis Erxl. White Whale.] At the close 

 of his list Captain Atwood thus mentions a species identified by Pro- 

 fessor Cope as above: " Besides those already named, some few years 

 ago a species was killed in our harbor and brought on shore which 

 no one knew. I examined it, and found it to differ from all other spe- 

 cies. Not long after it was announced in the papers that there was 

 a white whale on exhibition at the Aquaria! Gardens in Boston, that 

 Mr. Cutting had brought alive from the river St. Lawrence; a species 

 that had never been seen south of that river. Soon after I visited 

 Boston ami called to see it. I pronounced it to be identical with the 

 unknown species taken at Provincetown." This undoubted occurrence 

 of the white whale at Provincetown is the only instance of its having 

 been found so far south that has come to my knowledge. The skeleton 

 of the specimen exhibited at the Boston Aquarial (hardens, and referred 

 to above by Captain Atwood, is in the Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology. Is was presented by Mr. Cutting. 



33. [? Lagenorhynchus sp.] " Coav Fish. Occasional. 

 '•This species differs from the blackfish in being much smaller, 



and in yielding much less oil. Its blubber is thinner, and its color is a 

 light marble. It is sometimes called white blackfish by our whalers. 

 It is occasionally killed here, but it does not appear in huge schools, 

 like the blackfish. It is a distinct species, intermediate in size be- 

 tween the blackfish and the species we call porpoise (dolphin)." 



34. [Delphinus erebennus Cope. |- Porpoise. This is not 

 an abundant species here. They are at times in summer seen passing 

 alon^ the -bote in large schools, going northward ; in autumn they may 

 be -icn going back to the southward." 



35. Delphinus clymene Guat. Recording to Professor Cope 

 this species has been taken on the coast of New Jersey,* and it is not 

 unlikely to occasionally visit our shores. 



3G. [Phocasna americana Agass. (or P. brachycium Cope ; I 



* Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1865, p. 261. 



