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of Natural History {vide letter of G. M. Allen. 30 Jan.. 1920.) 

 That is the most northern range on this coast hitherto known. 

 Gerrit S. Miller did not include it in his Preliminary List of New 

 York Mammals (Bull. N. Y. State Mus.. 6. no. 29. Albany. 1899), 

 but a large female, containing a foetus, was stranded at Long 

 Beach, Long Island. N. Y., on 28th February 1914, and the skel- 

 eton is now in the American Museum of Natural History. New 

 York, {vide Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38, pp. 7-72. N. Y., 1918), 

 and a second specimen was taken at South Beach, Staten Island. 

 N. Y., on 1 March 1920 and is now in the same museum {vide 

 letter of F. A. Lucas). It has been taken several times on the 

 coast of New Jersey, viz., (a) female, 8^/2 ft. long, containing a 

 foetus, collected at the Life Saving Station. Spring Lake. lat. 40° 

 10'. on 27th April. 1883, now in U. S. National Museum, ace. 

 13060, (type of Kogia goodei True)*; (b) adult female, I Oft. 6 in. 

 long, collected at Barnegat City, 24th Oct. 1885, now in U. S. 

 National Museum, ace. 16706; and (c) young male, collected at 

 Loveladies, 25th Oct. 1885, now in U. S. National Museum, ace. 

 16705. In Virginia, a male was washed up on the beach during 

 a storm at Dam Neck Mills, south of Virginia Beach, in Feb., 

 1887 (U. S. Nat. Museum, ace. 22559); and in North Carolina, 

 a male, 7 ft. 10 in. long, was taken at Kitty Hawk. 5th Jan. 1885 

 (U. S. Nat. Museum, ace. 15560).t It is not commonly found 

 about the West Indies. 



Range. — Its general range is in tropical regions, and its occur- 

 ence beyond is more or less accidental. True (1885) gives the 

 geographic habitat as "temperate and tropical seas". Lydekker 

 (Guide to Whales, Porpoises and Dolphins in Brit. Museum, p. 26, 

 Lond., 1909) says it is very widely distributed, having been met 

 with in the Indian and Southern Oceans, and in the North Pacific, 

 but it does not occur in British waters. It is apparently more 

 common in the southern hemisphere; it or very closely related 

 forms having been taken a number of times in the New Zealand 

 seas, and also once on the coast of California. Some of these 

 specimens have been described as different species, but G. M. 

 Allen thinks that probably they should all be included under 



*Thi8 specimen is figured by True, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. for^l883, pi. 8, 

 fig. 22, Wash., 1885. 



fl am indebted to W. deC. Ravenal and Wm. Palmer, of the U. S. 

 National Museum, Wash., for particulars regarding the specimens taken on 

 the coasts of New Jersey. Virginia, and North Carolina. 



