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P. phoccena, See Proc. A. N. S., 1876, p. 134. See True, Mon. Delph. ad 9 

 Cape May, No. 13,359, rec'd Dec. 27, 1881. 



The type specimen of Phoccena Itneata Cope, which True considers the 

 same as communis was taken in our limits, in New York harbor in 1876. 

 True records two from Cape May in the National Museum. — Nos. 16,610, (a 

 female), and 13,359. "They have been seen in the Delaware as high up as 

 Trenton and are common in the Hudson north of the New Jersey State line." 

 — Abbott, in Geol. N. J., p. 760. 



Genus Grampus Gray, Spicilegia Zoologia, 1828, p. 2. 

 Grampus; Cow Fish. Grampus griseus (Cuvier). 



1812. Delphinus griseus Cuvier, Annals, de Museum, Vol. 19, p. 14, pi. i, 



fig. I- 



1889. Grampus griseus True, Bulletin U. S. National Museum, No. 36, 

 p. 125. 



Type locality. — Bay St. Brieux, France (English Channel). 



Faunal distribution. — North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Mediterranean. 



Distribution in Pa. and N.J. — Known only from the coast of N. J. 



Habits, etc. — This species associates with the black-fish and is rare in N. 

 England waters and more so on the N. J. coast, while the black-fish 

 {Globicephala brachypteta) is abundant. It is 12 to 15 feet long, has no 

 upper teeth, about 10 in the lower jaw, the head high, short and rounded; 

 the color bluish-black, variegated with irregular gray streaks and cloudings, 

 beneath white. They can only mash and swallow their food, owing to 

 absence of functional teeth. 



Records in N. J. — Atlantic Co. — (i) Atlantic City, stranded Feb. 2, 1887. 

 — True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. T^d, 1889, p. 183. — (2) Brigantine Beach, 

 Mch. 31, 1895, female. Photo, in U. S. N. M. — True. 



Genus Globicephala Lesson (Oeuvres Compl. de Buffon, 1828, Vol. i, fide 

 Agassiz), Noveau Tableau du Regne Animal, 1842, p. 200. 



Northern Blackfish; Pilot Whale. Globicephala melas (Traill). 



1809. Delphinus melas Traill, Nicholson's Journal, Vol. 22, p. 81. 



1842. Globicephalus melas De Kay, Zoology of N.York, Mammalia, p. 132. 



Type locality. — Coast of England. 



Faunal distribution. — North Atlantic Ocean ; south-west to Long Island, 

 and the N. J. coast ; south-eastward along the coasts of the British Isles. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Occasionally reaching the coasts of N. J. 

 in their wanderings southward. 



