158 MAMMALIA. 



B. rostrata, Fabr. Lesser Rorqual or Pike Whale. One captured off Largs, 

 Augt., 1897. Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899, p. 236. 



Fam. Physeteridae. 



Hyperoodon rostratus, Miiller. Bottlenose Whale. Apparently not unc. ; 

 frequently reported. Captured, Row, 1792 (old Stat. Acct.) ; Gareloch, 

 1863 ; Loch Ranza, 1883 ; Port-Glasgow, 1896 ; Loch Long, 1898 ; and Ayr, 

 1899. 



Fam. Delphinidae. 



Phocaena communis, Lesson. Com. Porpoise, c. ; all the year round. 

 [Orca gladiator, Gray. Killer or Grampus. Reported but not captured, 



Stat. Accts., 1793 and 1845, and Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1898, p. 237.] 

 Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Gray. White-beaked Dolphin. Apparently 



not unc. ; frequently reported particularly in Autumn. Captured, 



Kilbrannan Sd., 1874 (first Scottish record), 1894 and 1895 ; Bute, 1899. 

 L. acutus, Gray. White-sided Dolphin. One captured, Loch Fyne ; Harvie- 



Brown and Buckley's Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and Inner Hebrides, 



1892, p. 29. 

 [Delphinus delphis, L. Com. Dolphin. Skull, apparently of this species in 



Rothesay Museum.] 

 Tursiops tursio, Fabr. Com. Tursio. One captured, Loch Long, 1879 ; 



skull, etc., in Anatomical Museum, Edinburgh University. 



PRE-HISTORIC SPECIES. 



ORDER PROBOSCIDEA. 



Elephas primigenius, Blumenbach. Fossil Elephant or Mammoth. Bishop- 

 briggs ; Airdrie ; Cliftonhall ; Ballieston ; Kilmaurs ; and Dreghorn, 

 Ayrshire. 



ORDER UNGULATA. 



Equus caballus, L. Fossil Horse. Bowling ; Irvine ; Neilston ; W. Kil- 

 bride ; Ardrossan and Paisley ; species not always certain. 



CervilS giganteus, Blumenbach. Gigantic Irish Deer or Elk. Paisley ; 

 Neilston, and Maybole. 



