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Title: The Canadian field-naturalist
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1980 Reeves and Katona: White Whale Records 241
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Figure 2. Young Beluga seen in Great South Bay, Long Island, March-July 1979. Photo by Frank Keating, Newsday. The behavior described for the Great South Bay animal(s) was strikingly similar to that described for the New Jersey Beluga, and it is tempting to speculate that the same individual survived the winter and reap- peared inshore in spring, perhaps following spawning fish. Sighting reports for the Jones Beach area con- tinued through spring and summer, some of them documented by photos. A Beluga was seen by fisher- men in this area as late as mid-October 1979(F. Keat- ing, Newsday, Long Island, New York, personal communication). The sedentary behavior of the New Jersey and Long Island Beluga(s) is reminiscent of Sergeant's (1978) observations made in a small basin near the coast of Newfoundland, where a "stray" adult Beluga remained for an entire summer and fall. As he put it: "The unwillingness of this animal to explore its environment is remarkable; its semi-enclosed location evidently gave it some form of security." Several authors, among them Fisher and Sergeant (1954) and Mercer (1973), have written that White Whales are distributed south to New Jersey, basing their statements on Anderson's (1946) designation of Atlantic City as the southern limit of the species' known occurrence along this coast. Anderson's report apparently stemmed from a misreading of True (1910), in which a description is given of two White Whales held in a tank at Atlantic City in 1908. True did not make clear where the whales had been cap- tured, although it would have been reasonable to assume that, like many of their species taken for cap- tive display since at least as early as 1861 (Wyman 1863; Lee 1878), they were caught and transported from subarctic waters of eastern Canada. One of us (Reeves) examined the skull of one of these two cap- tive individuals, which is catalogued as USNM 238104 in the Smithsonian Institution. Although the label tied to the specimen says "from Atlantic City." museum curatorial records show that the whale actu- ally was collected in the St. Lawrence River by A. Minor Renshaw.

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