CETACEA: ESCHRICHTIDAE 665 



Type Locality. — Puget Sound, Wash. Range. — In eastern North Pacific 

 recorded from Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea (Preble, North Amer. Fauna No. 46, 

 pp. 118-119, June 27, 1923), Unalaska (Bailey and Hendee, Journ. Marara., 

 vol. 7, No. 1, p. 23, Feb. 15, 1926), Kanatak, on Shelikof Strait, Alaska Penin- 

 sula (Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 24, p. 27, Nov. 23, 1904), Wrangell 

 Narrows and Graham Reach, Alaska (Scheffer, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 2, 

 p. 116, May 23, 1949), Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Islands (Osgood, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 21, p. 25, Sept. 26, 1901), off Vancouver Island (Cowan, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, p. 295, Nov. 8, 1944), Puget Sound, Wash. 

 (Scheffer and Slipp, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 289-301, March 1948) , 

 Rockaway Beach, San Mateo County, Calif. (Orr, Journ. Mamm., vol. 18, 

 No. 3, p. 370, Aug. 14, 1937), and as far south as Tres Marias Islands (Nelson, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 14, p. 19, Apr. 20, 1899) and Banderas Bay, Jalisco, 

 Mexico (Scammon, The marine mammals of the northwestern coast of North 

 America, p. 95, 1874). Recorded recently at Elson Lagoon, Point Barrow, 

 Alaska (USNM 294800). 



Genus PHOCOENOIDES Andrews 

 1911. Phocoenoides Andrews, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 30, p. 31, May 

 16, 1911. (Type, Phocoenoides truei Andrews.) 



Phocoenoides dalli (True)f* (Dall's porpoise) 



1885. Phocaena dalli True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8, p. 95, June 19, 1885. 



1911. P[hocoenoides] dalli Andrews, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 30, 

 p. 34, May 16, 1911. 



Type Locality. — Strait west of Adakh [ = Adak], Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 

 Range. — In eastern North Pacific recorded from western Aleutian Islands, 

 Hoonyah [ = Hooniah] Sound, Alaska (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36, p. 125, 

 Aug. 8, 1889), Sullivan Island, Lynn Canal, and Wrangell, Alaska (Miller, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 74, p. 1, Jan. 26, 1929), Queen Charlotte Sound and 

 channels north of Vancouver Island (Cowan, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, 

 p. 295, Nov. 8, 1944) , 30 miles off Yaquina Head, Oreg. (Scheffer, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 23, No. 2, p. 221, May 14, 1942), San Francisco Bay and Santa Barbara 

 Channel between Santa Cruz Island and Santa Barbara, Calif. (Benson and 

 Groody, Journ. Mamm., vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 41-12, Feb. 14, 1942). 



Suborder MYSTICETI (baleen whales) 



Family Eschrichtidae 



Genus ESCHRICHTIUS Gray 



1864. Eschrichtius Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 14, p. 350, Novem- 

 ber 1864. (Type, Balaenoptera robusta Lilljeborg (Subfossil. See 

 Palmer, North Amer. Fauna No. 23, p. 271, Jan. 23, 1904. Regarded as 

 identical with Rhachianectes by Van Deinse and Junge, Temminckia, vol. 2, 

 pp. 178-181, 1937.) 



1869. Rhachianectes Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, p. 15. 

 (Type, Agaphelus glaucus Cope.) 



