1 6 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Family Ziphiidae ; Bottle-nosed or Beaked Whales. 

 Genus Ziphius Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, 1823, Vol. V, p. 352. 

 Ouvier's Beaked Whale. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier. 



1823. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, Ossemens Fossiles, Vol. V, p. 352. 



Type locality. — Mediterranean coast of France. 



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



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — A rare straggler to the coast of New Jersey. 



Habits, etc. — Not known ; at least undescribed with certainty. It was 

 originally named from a fossil skull fragment and subsequently found to be 

 also an existing species. The skull is much hollowed frontally, the pre- 

 maxillae and nasals rising high to the vertex of the cranium and projecting 

 forward Over the nares. There are no functional teeth, except two small 

 ones in the apex of the lower jaw. Length about twenty feet. 



Record in N. J., Atlantic Co. — At Barnegat City an adult female 19 ft. 

 4 in. long, was cast ashore Oct. 3, 1883. Its color was "light stone-gray, 

 darkest on the belly," an unusual color pattern. This is the first and only 

 record of the genus in the northwestern Atlantic. — See True, Science, Vol. II, ' 

 1883, p. 540. 



Genus Hyperoodon Lacepede, Histoire Naturelle des Cetacees, 1803-4; 

 Tableaux des Ordres, p. xliv. 



Bottlenose Whale ; Fug-Head Whale. Hyperoodon ampullatus 

 (Forster). 



1770. Balaena ampullatus Forster, Linnaean Travels, Kalm, Vol. I, p. 18, 

 foot-note. 



1902. Hyperoodon ampullatus Rhoads, Science, N. York, Vol. 15, p. 756. 



Type locality. — Coast of Scotland. , 



Faunal distribution. — North Atlantic Ocean ; straggling southward to 

 Rhode Island and Scotland. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Likely to again occur off the coast of New 

 Jersey, one specimen having been taken in New York Bay, another at New- 

 port, Rhode Island. 



Habits, etc. — This whale is common is the far north. It is small (20 to 30 

 feet), and the male has a square, high forehead suddenly rising from the 

 beaked snout. They go in small herds among the ice and are very tame, 

 leaping far into the air and diving head first like a fish. They go to great 

 depths to feed on a species of cuttle fish about 6 inches long. They migrate 

 southward in winter, rarely reaching the New England coast. This species 



