The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 62] 1907 [APRIL 



WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN, LAGENORHYNCHUS 

 ALBIROSTRIS, IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH. 



By BRUCE CAMPBELL. 

 PLATE II. 



A FINE specimen of this uncommon Cetacean was captured 

 off Cramond on the 26th of March. I had the pleasure of 

 examining and photographing it on the following day, and 

 found it to be an adult male measuring 8 feet 8.5 inches 

 on the straight. Its stomach contained the bones of 

 fishes and the claws and the legs of Hermit Crab (Pagurus 

 bernJiardus), 



This species is new, so far as is known, to the fauna of 

 the Firth of Forth, but examples have been obtained in the 

 North Sea just to the north and south of the mouth of the 

 Firth, namely at the Bell Rock and off Berwick. Though 

 this species was described in 1846 from an English specimen 

 captured off Yarmouth, it was not until 1879 that it was 

 detected in Scottish seas, but since that date several have 

 been obtained on both the east and west coasts of Scotland. 

 The White-beaked Dolphin is a native of the North Atlantic 

 from Davis Straits south-eastwards to the British and Irish 

 coasts, the North Sea and the Baltic. 



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