MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 1 5 



Standpoint on account of its " sperm oil," subsists principally on the giant 

 squids and cuttle fish and larger species of true fish which it quickly 

 crushes in its toothed jaws. The color is black above, shading to gray. 

 Its enormous head, shaped above like a rounded box, is nearly one-third the 

 entire length of the animal. The flippers are small and it has only one 

 blow-hole instead of two, as in the toothless baleen whales. These whales 

 sometimes attack boats and even ships, crushing or staving them in. 



Records in N. J. — Mr. True kindly furnishes me with the following data : 

 Cape May, N. J., Aug., 1882, a scapula, radius and ulna in U. S. National 

 Museum, No. 20,872. — Young, i8'-6" long. Brigantine Beach, N. J., May 4, 

 1900. Young male. 



Genus Kogia Gray, Zoology Voyage Erebus and Terror, Vol. r, 1846, p. 22. 

 Pigmy Sperm Whale. Kogia breviceps (De Blainville). 



1838. Physeter breviceps De Blainville, Annals Anat. & Physiol, vol. 1, 



P- 337- 



1846. Kogia. breviceps Gray, Zoology of Voy. Erebus and Terror, Vol. I, 

 p. 22. 



Type locality. — Cape of Good Hope. 



Faunal distribution. — Temperate and tropical seas of the world. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Stranded at various points on the New 

 Jersey coast. 



Habits, etc. — This seems to be the smallest of our whales. Its extremely 

 short nose and head distinguish it from the dolphins with which it has 

 resemblance because of small size. Their habits have not been put on 

 record. The color of a New Jersey specimen, as given by True, is dark 

 above, light beneath, the line of separation being straight along the middle 

 of the side above the flippers. 



Records in N.J., Atlantic Co. — Barnegat City, N. J., Oct. 24, 1885, female. 

 — Cat. No. 15,222, U. S. National Museum. Loveladie's Id., N. J., Oct. 25, 

 1885, male. — Cat. No. 15,223, U. S. National Museum. Atlantic City, N. J., 

 Apr., 1888, Male. — Cat. No. 22,893, U. S. National Museum. 



Cape May Co. — Corson's Inlet, Sea Isle City, Feb. 18, 1894, a male, 10 

 feet long ; stranded on the beach, considerably mutilated. In Wistar Insti- 

 tute Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Ocean City, Nov. 2, 1899, a male, 

 ri feet long, weighing about .700 pounds. No. 3,700, catalogue of the 

 Wistar Institute. This fine specimen was driven into a small cove by fisher- 

 men and killed. 



Monmouth Co. — Spring Lake, April r7, 1883; stranded on shore. Cat. 

 No. 13,738, U. S. National Museum, Wash'n. Figured in Hist. Aquat. 

 Amin., U. S. Fish Com., 1884, pi. 2. 



