50 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



sey, February .ist, 1894, for the purpose of catching porpoises 

 at Cape May but, though many were tal<en, 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 DeIvPhinus Linnaeus. 



' Delphinus delphis Linnseus. 

 Common Dolphin. 

 Plate 10, Fig. i. 



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 ProdELphinus Gervais. 

 Prodelphinus plagiodon (Cope). 



Spotted Dolphin. 

 Plate 10, Fig. 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. 



