2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



the east coast, 1 or north of Isle of Mull 2 on the west coast. 

 And though it is said to occur off the Scandinavian and 

 Greenland coasts, its precise range in the Northern European 

 Seas has still to be ascertained, for it has to some extent 

 been confounded with allied species. It is not uncommon 

 in the Atlantic, except the north, being frequent on all the 

 coasts of France, and occurs now and then in the English 

 Channel. Regarding its presence in the Seas of North- 

 Western Europe, Van Beneden doubts its occurrence in the 

 high north and the shores of Greenland, and remarks that it 

 is positively rare on the coasts of Scotland and Denmark, 

 and that it is also rare in the North Sea. According to 

 Lilljeborg and Reinhardt, however, it is occasionally met 

 with on the coasts of Denmark and Norway. ED.] 



BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE (Hyperoodon rostratus] ON THE 

 SOUTH-EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. 



Since the publication of Sir Wm. Turner's account of 

 this species in Scottish seas (" Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc.," I 885-86, 

 vol. ix.), the following specimens have occurred. 



A specimen about 26 feet long was stranded 2^- miles to 

 the west of Bo'ness, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, 

 on the 1 2th October 1895. Eight days afterwards I saw the 

 animal lying on the shore, but it was so much mutilated 

 that I could not make out the sex from external appearances. 



On the morning of 1st November 1895 a young 

 female, i 5 feet i o inches long, was found dead on the shore, 

 perfectly fresh, about a quarter of a mile east of the Red- 

 heugh Coastguard Station, and 4^ miles eastward from 

 Cockburnspath, Berwickshire. Except the belly, which was 

 of a dark gray colour, the rest of the animal was black. 

 It was advertised for sale by the Receiver of Wrecks of 

 H.M. Customs, but failed to find a purchaser. It will 

 therefore be cut up and buried near where it came ashore. 



In March 1894 a male specimen of H. rostratus, not 

 quite so long as the above, was stranded at Grangemouth, Firth 

 of Forth. 



1 "Trans. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb.," vol. ix. p. 346. 

 2 "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1893, p. 112. 



