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sight in the bright sun of a summer day (August 1897). Dr. James 

 Dunlop, who presented the specimens above named to the Kelvin- 

 grove Museum, states that White-beaked Dolphins are to be seen 

 daily in Kilbrannan Sound, where several other species of Dolphin 

 also occur ("Glasgow Herald," 7th September 1895). So far as 

 I know, the following are the only statements with any specific 

 value regarding our other Clyde Dolphins, (i) Lagenorhynchus 

 acutus (White-sided Dolphin), an example captured at Ardrishaig, as 

 recorded in the " Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Heb- 

 rides," 1892, p. 29. (2) Mr. F. Gordon Pearcey, Naturalist to the 

 Scottish Fishery Board, informs me that on i4th September 1898 

 he saw a large school of Delphinus delphis (?) between Ardlamont 

 and Skipness points ; and there is in Rothesay Museum a skull 

 labelled " Porpoise from Mr. A. M'Kirdy," but which I believe to 

 be this species, the Common Dolphin, as the skull is about 24 inches 

 in length, and has about 190 teeth. (3) The "New Statistical 

 Account" (vii., 1845, p. 439) states that the Great Dolphin 

 {Delphimis tursid), from 12 to 15 feet in length, and with a pointed 

 muzzle or beak, frequents the coast of Saddell and Skipness 

 during the herring-fishing season ; and in the Anatomical Museum, 

 Edinburgh, are the skull and ear-bones of an example of this species 

 shot in August 1879 in Loch Long by Dr. D. Noel Paton. It 

 will be seen that a satisfactory determination of at least one of the 

 species is still awanting. Further information may also show that 

 the name " bucker " is applied to more than one species, and it 

 may be noted that the "Old Statistical Account" (v., 1793, p. 535), 

 under Glasgow, mentions the Grampus or Bucker, Delpninus orca. 

 I may further say that I have made inquiry regarding the skulls in 

 the Hunterian Museum referred to by Mr. Wm. Taylor (ante, p. 68), 

 and while I am told it is certain that they are from the Clyde area 

 (obtained about thirty years ago), yet in the absence of any data 

 (quite a characteristic of this museum) it is impossible to accept 

 this statement, more particularly as there is no record of the 

 occurrence of Prodelphiniis in British waters. One of the skulls, 

 labelled Delphinus delphis, has a business card (E. Gerard . . . 

 Pimlico) attached to it bearing the name Sterna (sic) compressus, 

 and the same name is written on the skull itself. Sterno com- 

 pressus, Gray, is apparently a synonym for S. restrains, Desmarest 

 (Beddard's "Book of Whales," 1900, p. 273), and of this species 

 there is also no British record. HUGH BOYD WATT, Glasgow. 



Ornithological Notes from Orkney. A pair of Whimbrels 

 (Numenius phaopus) bred near Finstown on the Mainland this year, a 

 new locality for that bird, as previously they have only been recorded 

 from Hoy. 



A flock of quite one hundred Pochards (Fuligula ferina) 

 appeared on the Loch of Skaill the second week in July ; previously, 



