ZOOLOGICAL NOTES in 



s. </' s. d. 



263 Otters . . . . . at 5 o 65 15 o 



171 Full Grown Eagles . . . ,,210 179 n o 



53 Young Eagles and Eagles' Eggs ,,ioo 2610 o 



936 Ravens . . . . . ,,20 93 1 2 o 



1055 Hawks . . . . . ,, 10 52150 



1739 Carrion-Crows and Magpies . ,, o 6 43 9 6 



548 King's Fishers . . . . ,, 06 13140 



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HUGH S. GLADSTONE, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. 



Whaling- in Shetland 1910. Whaling in Shetland was very 

 late in beginning this year. At the Alexandra Company's station, 

 with the exception of a Bottle-nose Whale, no whale was got before 

 the 1 4th of May. For the rest of the year the whales were remark- 

 able for the fatness of the blubber; excluding the Bottle-nose 99 

 whales were killed against 101 in 1909, but over 700 more barrels 

 of oil were got. The result worked out : 



B. musculus, Finners, Bulls, 33, Average length 57.4 feet. 



,, Cows, 37, ,, 60.0 



B. borealis (Seihval) Bulls, 13, ,, ,, 44.0 ,, 



Cows, 10, ,, 47.3 



Megaptera, Humpbacks, Bulls, 2, ,, ,, 32.2 ,, 



Cows, 2, 45.5 



B, biscayensis, Nordcapers, Bull, i, ,, ,,51 ,, 



>j v^o>\ , i, ,, ,, 5 1 



This is the first year that the Alexandra station has got a 

 Nordcaper, but I was told the Olna station had got two also. 

 These whales are valuable on account of the length and value of 

 the baleen. It is also worthy of notice that four Humpbacks were 

 got ; these whales give a large quantity of oil for their size. The 

 two stations at Ronas Voe were not very successful, but the Olna 

 station did well. I did not see much of the station as I was un- 

 well most of the summer, and cannot tell if there was much of 

 interest to be recorded. R. C. HALDANE, Ollaberry, Shetland. 



White - beaked Dolphins in the Upper Estuary of the 

 Forth. At Blackness on the Linlithgowshire side of the Estuary 

 of the Forth, I examined on 7th February last (1911) two adult 

 White-beaked Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) which had been 

 stranded on the mudflats immediately to the east of the castle on 

 the 3rd and 4th of the month respectively. After being on view 

 on the beach in front of the village for a couple of days, they had 

 been removed by the sanitary inspector's orders to a point about 

 half a mile farther west to be buried, and I arrived just in time to 

 see the last of them. As it was I had only a few moments in the 

 case of one of them to make a general note of its appearance and 



