353 Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut. 



Order PACHYDERMATA.. 



Family Equidje. Horse Family. 



58. Equus Caballus, Linn,, Horse, introduced. 



59. E. Asinus, Linn., Ass, introduced. 



Family Suid^e. Swine Family. 



60. Sus Scrofa, Linn., Swine, introduced. 



Order RUMINANTIA. 



61. Bos Taurus, Linn., Ox, introduced. 



62. Ovis Aries, Linn., Sheep, introduced. 



63. Capra Hircus, Linn., the Goat, introduced. 



Family CERyioa:. The Deer Family. 

 *64. Cervus Virginianus, Gmel., Deer, Waterbury. 



Order CETACEA. 



Family Bals^nid^. 



*65. Balsena Mysticetus, Pennant, Right Whale, Stonington. 

 *66. Physeter macrocephalus, Linn., Spermaceti Whale, Ston- 

 ington. 



*64. A specimen of the deer, according to a notice in the New Haven Palladi- 

 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. 



*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 or eight 

 whales were seen blowing within four miles of Stonington, as 1 am informed by 

 J. H. Trumbull, Esq., of that place. 



*66. The spermaceti whale, or blunt-headed cachalot, is described in the New 

 Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, under ceiology, p. 559, as " found in Greenland and in 

 the seas that wash ike shores of JVeio England." Wright's Buffbn, also, Vol. 4, 

 p. 69, says — " the New England whale has a hump on the back," and this hump 

 applies only to this species. Its distinctive character is, that " it has an elevated 

 hump in place of the dorsal fin." Dr. Dekay also describes it as an inhabitant of 

 New York state. 



