CETACEA: DELPHINIDAE 663 



Globicephala melaena (Traill)* (blackfish or pilot whale) 



1809. Delphinus melas Traill. Journ. Nat. Philos. Chem. Arts, vol. 22, p. 81, 



pi. 3, February 1809. 

 1812. Delphinus globiceps G Cuvier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, vol. 19, p. 14, 



pi. 1, August 1812. (Sainte Brieux, France.) 

 1898. Globicephala melaena Thomas, The Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. 2, p. 99, 



March 1898. 



1933. Globicephalus ventricosus Iredale and Troughton, Rec. Australian Mus., 



vol. 19, No. 1, p. 35, Aug. 2, 1933. (Not of Lacepede, since Delphinus 



ventricosus Lacepede, Histoire Naturelle des Cetacees, . . . , pp. xliii, 311, 



pi. 15, fig. 3, 1804, was based on the small grampus of Hunter, Phil. Trans. 



Roy. Soc. London, vol. 77, pL 17, 1787. Hunter's illustration was redrawn 



and the porpoise described under the name "l'epaulard ventru" by Bon- 



naterre, Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature, 



Cetologie, in Encyclopedic Methodique, Paris, vol. 127, pi. 12, fig. 2, 1789. 



Palmer, in Hunter, The works of John Hunter . . . edited [with notes] by 



J. F. Palmer, plates, p. 22, explanation for pi. 45, 1837, correctly states that 



Hunter's illustration is an exact representation of the common porpoise, 



Phocoena phocoena. See Fraser, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 12, vol. 4, 



No. 45, pp. 942-944, September 1951.) 



Type Locality. — Scapay Bay, Pomona, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Range. — 



In western North Atlantic recorded from off Iceland (Saemundsson, Mammalia, 



in Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, p. 21, 1939), coasts of Greenland (Brown, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pt. 3, pp. 554-556, March 1869) , vicinity of Trois 



Pistoles, Quebec (Prefontaine, Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., Quebec 



(French edition), 1930, p. 50, 1931), Gulf of St. Lawrence (Matthewson, Journ. 



Mamm., vol. 16, No. 3, p. 234, Aug. 12, 1935), coast of Prince Edward Island 



(Needier, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 157-158, Oct. 1, 1937), Cape 



Cod, Mass., south to Long Island, N. Y. (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36, p. 133, 



Aug. 8, 1889), and Virginia (Handley and Patton, Wild mammals of Virginia, 



p. 204, 1947). 



Globicephala macrorhyncha Gray* 



1846. Globicephalus macrorhynchus Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of 



H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, . . . , vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 33. 

 1876. Globicephalus brachypterus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 



vol. 28, p. 129. (East coast of Delaware Bay, at mouth of Maurice River. 



Regarded as identical with macrorhyncha by Fraser, Atlantide Report No. 1 



(Scientific results of the Danish expedition to the coasts of tropical West 



Africa 1945-46), pp. 50, 52, 58, 59, 1950.) 

 1884. Globicephalus brachypterus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 



Circ. 29) , p. 589, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1950. Globicephala macrorhyncha Fraser, Atlantide Report No. 1 (Scientific 



results of the Danish expedition to the coasts of tropical West Africa 1945- 



1946), p. 59. 

 Type Locality. — South Seas. Range. — In western North Atlantic from New 

 Jersey south to Gulf of Mexico and West Indies (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 36, p. 139, Aug. 9, 1889) . Recorded also from Dam Neck Mills, Va., and Osprey 



