Del: hiniriae (Porpoise or/and ' l ( i 
jix anuna] s that were nob ! ■ i i spec , r , wore rec f 
tiie grid area. 
Dolphinns .v 'Lphij ■aircii (Comint ti r air i Jolphin) 
Ninety-four "aird Dolphins i ■ o recci led. Fi f ty of these ;• 
in ot ' rro’in s^en on 1(3 January ii Jatita a^bara Channel. The 
remaining )iJi animals were s«*en in lie non them third of the yr i 
All of the animal s were attracted o the -hi o and on occasions a 
ro ie the bow wake for a short eer'od o time, affordine oxcel 
opportunity for pood identification. 
Phocoenoi ies da Hi (Dali Porpoise) 
Three Dali Porpoise were recorded in the Santa iarbara Ch ■ 
Whale so. 
r'‘ 
r * hree whales were seen, one rn 18 January and the others in !; ■ 
southern third of the gri i, that w re not snecifically identified owe 
to short durations of observation. 
( rcinus orca (Killer Whale) 
Pour Killer Whales were s en on 2$ January in the southern t .,■ i 
of the grid. No disparity was noted in the size of dorsal fin;, ; . eating 
there was no adult male travellinp with tie pod. 
Palaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale) 
Three animals were identified as possibly being of this s icl: 
on lo January in Santa Barbara Channel. 'he observer does not w 
this sighting regarded as a positive identification. 
DISCUSSION ; 
Tne California Coastal marine mammals are many and varied, 
fowever, in the grid area which traverses water over 1000 fathoms 
or more there are fewer forms and oopulation densities are lower, 'umbers 
of seasonally resident mammals do annear large enough to be co .si irred 
important in the survey. 
J-t is interesting that we noted no Califorria Gray Whales 
( Fschrichtius gibbosus ) in the grid area during this survey, 
animals are anundant along the one ;t at this time of year. Th y 
apparently do not wander far to r.r ) during migration and breea 
season. 
