The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 59] 1906 [JULY 



WHITE-SIDED DOLPHIN (DELPHINUS ACUTUS] 

 FROM THE COAST OF SUTHERLAND. 



By Sir WILLIAM TURNER, K.C.B., F.R.S., Etc. 



EARLY in April of this year a dolphin was stranded on the 

 coast of Sutherland, about half a mile to the east of Dun- 

 robin Castle, where a streamlet entered the sea. The atten- 

 tion of the Rev. Dr. Joass was called to the animal by one 

 of the Duke of Sutherland's keepers, and Dr. Joass arranged 

 that it should be sent to me, for the Anatomical Museum of 

 the University of Edinburgh. The dolphin arrived in ex- 

 cellent order, and proved, on examination, to be a specimen 

 of the species originally named by Dr. Gray, Delphinus 

 actttus, though subsequently termed Lagenorhynchus acutus, 

 or L. leiicoplenrus, the white-sided dolphin. The specimen 

 was a female, 6 feet long. Its characters were described by 

 me to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4th June, and an 

 account of it, with figures, will appear in the " Proceedings " 

 of the Society. 



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