2 BULLETI>; rj, U^'ITEU STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



On the east and west coasts of the United States the only occurrences of beaked 

 whales known to nie are as follows: 



EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Mesoplodon bidens: 



Nantucket Island, Miissacliunetts. 1867. Skull in the Muf-eum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, MaRsacluiaetta. 



Mesoplodon europseus: 



Atlantic City, New Jersey. March 28, 1889. Young male. Skeleton, cast, photographs, and 



viscera in the National Museum. 

 North Long Branch, New Jersey. July 22, 1905. Adult female. Skull in the Museum of 



Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 Mesoplodon densirostrisf: 



Annisquam, Massachusetts. August, 1898. Young female. Skeleton in the Museum of the 



Boston Society of Natural History. 

 Ziphius cavirostrii: 



Charleston, South Carolina. 186.5 (?). Young female. Skeleton in the National Museum. 



(Typo of Z. semijunctus.) 

 Barnegat City, New Jersey. October 3, 1883. Adult female. Skeleton and cast in the 



National Museum. 

 St. Simon Island, Cieorgia. 1893. Male (?). Known from a photograph; only a few bones 



preserved. 

 Newport, Rhode Island. October, 1901. Adult male. Skeleton and photograph in the 



National Museum. 

 Hyperoodon a mpulla t us: 



New York Bay, New York. 1822. Female (?). Not known to have been preserved. 



North Dennis, Massachusetts. January, 1869. Male. Skeleton in the Museum of Compara- 



ti\o Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 Newport, Rhode Island. 1869. Female. Skull in Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 



Philadelphia. 



WEST COAST OF THE CNITED STATES. 



Mesoplodon slcjnegeri: 



Yaquina Bay, near Newport, Oregon. February 15 (?), 1904. Adult. Skull in the National 



Museum. 

 Ziphius caiimntrin: 



Kiska Harbor, Alaska. September, 1904. Known only from photographs. 

 Berardius bairdii: 



St. George Island, Bribilof Group, Alaska. June, 1903. Adult female. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 St. George Island, Pribilof Grouj), Alaska. June, 1903. Young male. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 Centerville Beach, near Femdale, California. October, 1904. Adult male. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 Alaska or California (?). Skull formerly in museum of the Alaska Commercial Company, San 



Francisco. 

 Trinidad, California. January 30, 1905. Not preserved; perhaps not this genus. 

 St.GeorgeIsland,Pribilof Group, Alaska. August 21, 1909. Female. Probably not preserved. 



Reported by Maj. Ezra W. Clark. 



