2 BULLETIN' 73, UAUTED STATES NATIO^IAL MUSEUM. 



On the east and west coasts of the United States tlie only occurrences of beaked 

 whales known to me are as follows: 



EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 Mesoplodon bidens: 



Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. 1SG7. Skull in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. 



Mesoplodon europmus: 



Atlantic City, New Jersey. March 28, 1889. Young male. Skeleton, cast, photograplis, and 



viscera in the National Museum. 

 North Long Branch, New Jersey. July 22, 1905. Adult female. Skull in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 Mesoplodon densiroslris?: 



Annisquam, Massachusetts. August, 1898. Young female. Skeleton in the Museum of the 

 Bo.'-ton Society of Natural History. 

 Ziphitis cavirosir U: 



Charleston, South C'arolina. 186.5 (?). Young female. Skeleton in the National Museum. 



(Type of Z. semijiinclus. ) 

 Barnegat City, New Jersey. October 3, 1883. .\dult female. Skeleton and cast in the 



National Museum. 

 St. Simon Island, Georgia. 1893. Male (?). Known from a photograph; only a few bones 



preser\-ed . 

 Newport, Rhode Island. October, 1901. Adult male. Skeleton and photograph in the 

 National Museum. 

 Hyperoodon anipullctus: 



New York Bay, New York. 1822. Female (?). Not known to have been preserved. 

 North Dennis, Massachusetts. January, 1869. Male. Skeleton in the Museum of Compara- 

 ^ tive Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Newport, Rhode Island. 1869. Female. Skull in Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia. 



WEST COAST OF THE ITNITEP STATES. 

 Mesoplodon slejncgeri: 



Yaquina Bay, near Newport, Oregon. February lb (?), 1904. .Vdult. Skull in the National 

 » Museum. 



Ziphius cavirostriji: 



Kiska Harbor, .Alaska. September, 1904. Known only from photographs. 

 Berardius bairdii: 



St. George Island, Pribilof Group, .Maska. June, 1903. Adult female. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 St. George Island, Pribilof (iroup, Alaska. June, 1903. Young male. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 Centerville Beach, near Ferndale, California. October, 1904. Adult male. Skeleton in the 



National Museum. 

 Alaska or California (?). Skull formerly in museum of the .\la8ka Commercial Company, San 



Francisco. 

 Trinidad, California. January 30, 1905. Not preserved; perhaps not this genus. 

 St. George Island, Pribilof Group, Alaska. August 21, 1909. Female. Probably not preserved. 

 Reported by Maj. Ezra W. Clark. 



