TABLE OF CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION i 



METHODS ^ 



SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTS 4 



Large Cetaceans 4 



Residents and Most Common Migrants 4 



Gray Whale 4 



Humpback Whale 6 



Blue Whale 8 



Fin Whale lo 



Sperm Whale i2 



Baird's Beaked Whale 1 5 



Other Species Reported 14 



Sei Whale 14 



Bryde's Whale 14 



Right Whale 15 



Medium-sized Cetaceans >6 



Residents and Most Common Migrants 16 



Minke Whale 16 



Pilot Whale 18 



Risso's Dolphin iQ 



Killer Whale 20 



Other Species Reported -■ 



False Killer Whale 21 



Cu\ier's Beaked Whale 22 



Beaked Whales of the Genus Mesoplodon 25 



Stejneger's Beaked Whale 25 



Blainville's Beaked Whale 25 



Hubbs' Beaked Whale 25 



Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale 25 



Hector's Beaked Whale 23 



Small Cetaceans 24 



Residents and Most Common Migrants 24 



Dall's Porpoise 24 



Pacific White-sided Dolphin 26 



Northern Right-whale Dolphin 28 



Common Dolphin 28 



Bottlcnose Dolphin ?ci 



Other Species Reported 32 



Pvgmv Sperm Whale 32 



Dwarf Sperm Whale 32 



Striped Dolphin ?2 



Harbor Porpoise ii 



Rough-toothed Dolphin ? ? 



SELECTED BIBLIOGR,\PHY H 



APPENDICES: 



Appendix I - Aids to Establishing a Sightings Network tor the CINMS 36 



Table I-i -Data Coding Instructions 5? 



Appendix 11 -Aids to Establishing a Stranding Network for the CINMS 54 



Table II- 1 - Odontocete Tooth Ranges 64 



Table U-i -M\sticete Size, Baleen, and \'enteral Grooves Comparison 64 



Cetacean Data Record ^5 



Sighting Forms °7 



