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nearer to our limits than those above given has been made to my knowledge. 

 Owing to the infrequency of capture of these savage and inaccessible tyrants 

 of the sea, it is quite possible that the black killer has been frequently mis- 

 taken, while in its native element, for the common white-bellied species, 

 Oricinus area. It is likely to be found off the N. J. coast, and may be known 

 by its peculiar square-nosed, lizard-like head. It is about the same size as 

 the common killer. The roots of the teeth are round and the dorsal fin 

 rather low and slender pointed. 



Skunk Porpoise; Striped Dolphin. Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray). 



It is possible that some of the dolphins which Godman so graphically de- 

 scribes as being observed by him in the " waters " off Sandy Hook were of 

 this species. This is emphasized by his figure of D. dephis, whose color pat- 

 tern and shape of body and fins, without head, fit the skunk porpoise very 

 well. The head is that of the " true dolphin," however, and so is his descrip- 

 tion. The abundance of the dolphins observed by him off Sandy Hook and 

 the close resemblance between Z. acutus and D. delphis conjointly indicate a 

 state of affairs not now existing as to the distribution and abundance of these 

 species. 



Z. acutus has been taken off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts in 

 considerable numbers. It is, without reasonable doubt, at least a straggler 

 to the waters of northern N. J., as are some other marine species of similar 

 range and habits. The Lagenorhynchus is immediately known from Delphinus 

 by its very short, broad beak. In other respects it resembles the latter, 

 being a foot or two longer. The number of teeth in Z. acutus is 22 to 45, in 

 Z>. delphis 47 to 65. 



Eastern Moose. Alces americanus Jardine. 



The fossil remains of moose have been found in Pa. caves (see under fossil 

 list). Certain statements of earliest travelers to America imply that the 

 moose was found on the west shores of Hudson River opposite New York 

 and in northeastern Pa. There is a Moosic in Lackawanna Co., a Moose- 

 head in Luzerne Co., and Chinklaca-moose, the Indian Village (now Clear- 

 field), in Clearfield Co. In Doughty's Cabinet of Natural History, vol. i, 

 p. 281, a Philadelphia correspondent says that the horns of moose were 

 found in a salt lick in the Alleghany mountains, Pa., near the New York state 

 line. These items are here noted in support of the theory that the moose in 

 late pre-Columbian times wandered into the Alleghany mountains of Pa. 

 from its more favored haunts in the lake regions of New York. Miller states 

 it " once ranged throughout the state " of New York. If this can be verified 

 by history it would be an interesting fact, at once removing any improba- 



