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vol. 39, No. 2, p. 267, March 1948) and South Beach, Yaquina Bay, near New- 

 port, Oreg. (True, loc. cit.) . 



Genus ZIPHIUS G. Cuvier 

 1823. Ziphius G. Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles . . . , ed. 2, 

 vol. 5, p. 352 (ed. 3, vol. 5, p. 352, 1825). (Type, Ziphius cavirostris 

 G. Cuvier.) 



Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier* (Cuvier's beaked whale) 



1823. Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles ...» 



ed. 2, vol. 5, p. 352 (ed. 3, vol. 5, p. 352, 1825) . 

 1865. Hyperodon [sic] semijunctus Copef , Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 17, p. 280. (Charleston, S. C.) 



1883. Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejnegerf, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 6, p. 77, 

 June 30, 1883. (Bering Island, Commander Islands, Bering Sea.) 



1884. Ziphius cavirostris, Z. semijunctus, and Z. grebnitzkii True, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Near Fos, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. Range. — In western 

 North Atlantic recorded from Newport, R. I., south to St. Simon Island, Ga. 

 (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 73, p. 31, Sept. 28, 1910. For additional records 

 see Ulmer, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 93, pp. 119-120, Sept. 11, 

 1941) ; in eastern North Pacific recorded from Kiska Harbor, Alaska (David- 

 son, Journ. Mamra., vol. 10, No. 4, p. 357, Nov. 11, 1929), Vancouver Island 

 (Cowan and Hatter, Murrelet, vol. 21, No. 1, p. 9, Apr. 30, 1940; Cowan, Journ. 

 Mamm, vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 93-94, Feb. 23, 1945), near Big Flat, Humboldt 

 County, Calif. (Orr, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 4, p. 420, Dec. 31, 1948), and 

 Del Mar, San Diego County, Calif. (Hubbs, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 3, 

 p. 243, Aug. 14, 1946) . 



Genus HYPEROODON Lacepede 

 1804. Hyperoodon Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des cetacees, . . . , p. xliv. 

 (Type, Hyperoodon butskopf Lacepede = Balaena ampullata Forster.) 



Hyperoodon ampullatus ( Forster ) * ( bottlenose ) 



1770. Balaena ampullata Forster in Kalm, Travels into North America; . . . , 

 vol. 1, p. 18, footnote. (Based on "beaked whale" of Pennant, The British 

 Zoology, pt. 3, p. 43 [ = p. 59, pi. 5, fig. 1], 1766.) 

 1776. Balaena rostrata O. F. Miiller, Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, . . . , 



p. 7. 

 1884. Hyperoodon rostratus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1902. Hyperoodon ampullatus Rhoads, Science, new ser., vol. 15, p. 756, May 



9, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Maldon, Essex, England. Range. — In western North Atlantic 

 recorded from Davis Strait (Brown, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pt. 3, p. 556, 

 March 1869), south side of lower St. Lawrence River near Cape Martin, Ka- 

 mouraska County, Quebec (Beauge, Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 Quebec (French edition only), pp. 23-30, July 14, 1942), North Dennis, Mass. 



