4 BALiENOPTERA KOGIA. 



Order CETE. 

 Family BAL.l^^NIDiE. 



Genus BAL^^NOPTERA. 



Balaenoptera davidsoni Scaiuiiioii. 



I'nn-. Califdrniji Acad. Sci., IV, p. 20!), printed in advanco, Octobor 4, ls72: 

 Tkuk, Smitlisonian Contributicnis to Knowledj^e, XXXIII, im". '••! :nid 2!):'., 

 1)1. 25. til,'. 1 : pi. 23, tiiT, 1 : and pi. 2(!, tif;. 1. 



12177. Skull. Adult female. Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, Wa.sli- 

 ing-ton. October. 1870. Collected by Capt. C. M. Scammon. 

 Catalo<rued February (>, 1872. 



Slvidl ill Rood t'oiiditioii. 



Type not designated by iniinbpr. See Tnic, o//. <il., \). 91. 



Family PHYSETERID^]. 



Genus KOGIA. 

 Kogia floweri 0111. 



Anier. Nat., IV, p. 73S; fig. 107. p. 730, and fig. 172, p. 741, 1871. 



8016. Mandible and water-color sketch of entire animal (the ''por- 

 trait" mentioned by Dr. T. X. Gill). Off Mazatlan. Sinaloa, 

 Mexico. 1808. Collected by Col. A. J. Grayson, U. S. A. Cata- 

 logued in 1808. 



Posterior end of mandible broken and a few teeth lacking. Water-color 

 sketch (188 by 52 mm. ) in good condition. 



Type not designated bj-^ number. In the original depcription it is said to ))e 

 based on "jaw and portrait." 



Kogia goodei True. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 27. Great International Fit^heries Kxhibitioii, Lon- 

 don, 1883. United States of America. II. Catalogue of the Aquatic ^Mammals 

 exhibited Viy the U. S. National Museum, p. 630, table, and p. (541, list. Nomcn 

 niidmn. 

 = Kogia breviceps (Blainville). See True, Report U. S. Fish Commission for 1883. 

 .Suggestions to Keepers U. S. Life-Saviiig Stations, etc., relative to collecting 

 anfl preserving specimens of Whales and Porpoises, pi. 8, fig. 22. 



iofiiiS- Cast of entire animal, and skeleton. Adult female. Spring 

 Lake, New Jer.sey. Keceived in the tlesli from II. S. Ilowlaud, 

 Ai^ril 27, 1883. Original number of cast 40. Catalogued April 



27, 1888. 



Cast in good condition; in storage. 



Skeleton in good condition; on exliibition. 



No description of this species has been ])ublished. The name occurs in the 

 table and list cited above. Two specimens are mentioned, the above and one 

 from Florida, represented by the mandible and by photographs. 



