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sey, February 1st, 1894, for the purpose of catching porpoises 
at Cape May but, though many were taken, the enterprise was 
not successful. 
Two skeletons of Cape May specimens are in the United States 
National Museum, and another from a specimen caught in a 
fisherman’s seine at Red Bank on the Delaware, early in the six- 
ties, is in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Tursiops tursio Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 17. 
Genus DELPHINUS Linnzus. 
Delphinus delphis Linnezus. 
Common Dolphin. 
PLATE 10, Fic. 1 
Length, 7 feet. Beak longer and narrower than in the pre- 
ceding. Color variable, back black, sides gray, underparts white; 
a black ring around the eye and a black line to the beak, usually 
several dusky stripes on the sides. Teeth 47 to 50 on each side in 
the upper jaw and 46 to 51 below. 
This species is apparently not common on our Atlantic coast 
but has been taken in New York Harbor and at Woods’ Hole. 
The only New Jersey specimen with which I am acquainted, is 
a female, the skeleton of which is in the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, secured at Ocean City in 1894. 
Delphinus delphis Abbott, Cook’s Geol. of N. J., 1868, p. 
760.—Rhoads, Mam. Pa. and N. J., 1903, p. 18. 
Genus PROoDELPHINUS Gervais. 
Prodelphinus plagiodon (Cope). 
Spotted Dolphin. 
PLATE 10, Fic. 2. 
Length, 7 feet. Very similar in form to the last. Purplish 
gray above, white below, upper parts spotted with white, lower 
with dark gray. Teeth, 37 on each side above, 34 below. 
