MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. l^ 



has a beak like the dolphin's, only shorter. No teeth are visible above the 

 gums, two at the apex of the lower jaw are the largest, but non- functional. 



Records in N. J. — New York £ay.—De Kay records a specimen taken in 

 the "lower" bay in 1822 ; said to be a female. — Zool. N. York, Vol. I, 1842, 

 p. 131. 



Kalm says it was common during his voyage to America almost all the way 

 across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States. 



Genus Mesoplodon Gervais, Annal. Scien. Nature, series 3, 1850, vol. 14, p. 16. 

 Sowerby's Whale, Cowfish. Mesoplodon bidets (Sowerby). 



1806. Physeter b'idens Sowerby, British Miscellany, p. i. 



1877. Mesoplodon bidens Flower, Proceedings Zoological Society, London, 

 p. 684. 



Type locality. — Near Brodie House, Elginshire, Scotland. 



Faunal distribution. — Not determined. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — Recorded once from the N. J. coast. 



Habits, etc. — Not described by authors. Known from the other Ziphoids 

 Tjy generally having the two, solitary, mandibular teeth set nearly half way 

 back from the apex of the jaw, and sometimes these are of great size,- actually 

 meeting over the rostrum. In bidens they are less exaggerated. 



Record in N.J., Atlantic Co. — A male, i2j^ feet long, was stranded at 

 Atlantic City, March 28, 1889, and was secured for the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum at Washington, by Mr. F. W. True. Cat. No. Ifllf .— See Proc. Roy. 

 Phys. Soc, Edinb., vol. 10, p. 13. 



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Family DELPHiNiDiE ; Dolphins and Porpoises. 



Genus Tursiops Gervais, Histoire Natur. des Mammiferes, 1855, vol. 2, p. 323. 



Bottlenose Dolphin, Common Porpoise. Tursiops tursio (Fabricius). 



1 780. Delphinus tursio Fabricius, Fauna Groenland., p. 49. 



1864. Tursiops tursio Gervais, Comptes Rendus, p. 876. 



Type locality. — Coast of Greenland. 



Faunal distribution. — Atlantic Ocean, from Greenland to France and the 

 West Indies. 



Distribution in Pa. and N. J. — The commonest species of Delphinidce on 

 the coast of N. J. Rarely entering bays and rivers. 



Habits, etc. — "A company, called the Porpoise Fishing Co., was incorpor- 

 ated under the laws of New Jersey, Feb. i, 1894, and undertook the capture 



