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bulletin oe the bureau of fisheries. 
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus. Common dolphin. 
G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 7 (no local records). 
Dr. True furnishes the following record: “Woods 
Hole, Mass., September 29, 1884. Male and 
female. Skeletons in U. S. National Museum, 
received from U. S. Fish Commission. (These 
may have merely been brought into Woods 
Hole from some other place).” He also cites 
several captures of this species in adjacent 
parts of the ocean, beyond the limits of this 
region, strictly speaking. 
Family Murids. 
Fiber zibethicus (Linnaeus). Muskrat. 
G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 17 (no local records). 
Lackeys Bay, in marsh; Great Pond; Waquoit 
Bay; Tisbury Pond; Ch il mark Pond ; Herring 
Pond (at Edgartown). — V. N. Edwards. 
Builds nests from dead eelgrass, marsh grass, etc., 
at first forming a solid heap, which is then ex- 
cavated. These animals are trapped through- 
out the winter. 
Family Phocid^e. 
Phoca vitulina Linnaeus. Harbor seal. 
H. M. Smith, 1900, G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 20 (no 
local records). 
Scraggy Neck; Lackeys Bay; Woods Hole Har- 
bor; common some years, a herd of 100 or more 
Phoca vitulina — Continued. 
being sometimes seen in Buzzards Bay. Ap- 
pear in middle of October or first of November 
and continue till April or May; never seen in 
summer. Caught in fyke nets or gill nets; in 
the former case they drown ; in the latter case 
they are frequently caught alive, 21 specimens 
being thus taken by Mr. Edwards within two 
weeks during January, 1887. — Smith. A 
specimen was shot by Mr. E. F. Locke within 
the “basin” of the local pier on December 24, 
T 9°7 ■ 
? Cystophora cristata (Erxleben). Hooded seal, 
crested seal. 
G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 21 (no local records). 
To this species perhaps belongs a seal said by Mr. 
V. N. Edwards to be several times as large as 
the harbor seal and seen by him during more 
than one season in Lackeys Bay. 
Family Must eli 0/13. 
Putorius vison lutreocephalus (Harlan). Little 
brown mink. 
G. M. Allen, 1904, p. 25 (no local records). 
Nonamesset Island, in gutters and salt sands. — 
V. N. Edwards. Devils Foot Island, in Woods 
Hole Harbor. — F. B. Sumner. 
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