352 Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut. 
Orper PACHYDERMATA. 
Family Equine. Horse Family. 
58. Equus Caballus, Linn., Horse, introduced. 
59. E. Asinus, Linn., Ass, introduced. 
Family Suz. Swine Family. 
60. Sus Scrofa, Linn., Swine, introduced. 
Orpver RUMINANTITA. 
61. Bos Taurus, Linn., Ox, introduced. 
62. Ovis Aries, Linn., Sheep, introduced. 
63. Capra Hircus, Linn., the Goat, introduced. 
Family Cervinz. The Deer Family. 
*64. Cervus Virginianus, Gmel., Deer, Waterbury. 
Orper CETACEA. 
Family Bauayiwe. 
*65. Balena Mysticetus, Pennant, Right Whale, Stonington. 
*66. Physeter macrocephalus, Linn., Spermaceti Whale, Ston- 
ington. , 
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*64. A specimen of the deer, according to a notice in the New Haven Palladt- 
um, was last winter taken by Mr. L. F. Lewis, in Waterbury, and a pair of do- 
mesticated deer are now kept on Greenfield Hill by Dr. Bronson. i Roe 
*65. The “ right whale’ was taken at Stonington a few years since, which yield- 
ed twenty seven barrels of oil, and another from the same gang was taken into 
Montauk, which yielded sixty barrels; and during the last summer six oF eight 
whales were seen blowing within four miles of Stonington, as { am informed by 
J. H. Trumbull, Esq., of that place. . 
. The spermaceti whale, or blunt-headed cachalot, is described in the New 
argh Encyclopedia, under cetology, p. 559, as “ found in Greenland and in 
s that wash the shores of New England.” Wright's Buffon, also, Vol. 4, 
s—* the New England whale has a hump on the back,” and this hump 
to this species. Its distinctive character is, that ‘it has an elevated 
the dorsal uhabitant of 
Dr. Dekay also describes it as an t 
