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Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut. 353 
*67. Rorqualust costatus, Dekay, Beaked Whale, Stoning- 
ton. 
Family Devpuriwz. 
*68. Delphinus Delphis, Sea Porpoise, Long Island Sound. 
*69. Globicephalus melas, Dekay, Social Whale, Bridgeport: 
*70. Phocena communis, Dekay, Common Porpoise, rene Isl- 
and Sound. 
*71. P. orca, Dekay, Grampus, Stonington. 
It is matter of some astonishment, how little is to be learned 
from the books as yet before the public, on the subject of the 
whales and dolphins that inhabit the waters of the United States. 
Dr. Dekay has kindly furnished me with the generic and specific 
descriptions of the last two families ; but as his report, now in 
progress of publication, will doubtless soon appear, I have deem- 
ed it for the present expedient that they should first come before 
the public in that splendid and most valuable work. No man 
is probably better acquainted with the species of these two fami- 
*67. Of the beaked whale, it may be said ae aspecimen sixteen to eighteen 
feet in length, was taken in Raritan Bay in 1822, and hence we may infer that the 
east end of our Sound would be as likely to receive such an main visitor as 
ee cata ees: is said to be ‘‘found in most parts of nA 
sea porpoise is described as having forty eight teeth in cack te jaw Dr, 
Dekay however describes it as having ‘ninety two to ninety five in each wart 9 
have a jaw specimen of this species which has ninety six teeth, that is, forty eight 
Oneach side. He is found throughout the Atlantic Ocean. ; 
*69. A specimen of this animal was s stranded near Bridgeport a few years sinca, 
an account of which will be found in the Am. Jour. of Science, Vol. xx x11, p. 301. 
*70. Numbers of the common porpoise are taken in this town for the sake of 
the oil, which is usually from three to seven gallons. A captain of a vessel from 
this. place assures me, that he once saw the mother and young of this species by 
her side, (the young about 3 feet in length, the old is usually Psd 4 to 6 feet,) the 
mother had caught a flat fish, and was evidently teaching the young one how to 
catch it. After taking it in bite mouth, she threw it out forward with great force 
about six feet -_ her; and he adds that he saw her repeat this operation at least 
eight or ten tim 
"71. This peck is from 20 to 25 feet in length, and I have on several occasions 
met in Boston B Bay and pevinaus, what the fishermen called the grampus, and about 
Ppeagal and as Dr. Dekay has given him a seenode in the waters of New York, 
infer that bably make us an occasion 
he ake Nobuniia ha ol “means whale with foie. ct , Bee Nai. 
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