NOTES ON PRODELPHINUS AND OTHER DOLPHINS 3 



Innerwick, Haddingtonshire, presented by Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke. 



The following are the distinguishing characteristics of 

 the two subspecies : 



E. europaus occidentalis. 



" Skull with conspicuous frontal processes to the pre- 

 maxillas, with a blunt or nearly square posterior termination, 

 and seldom showing a sharply defined point or angle ; these 

 processes usually extend backward for more than half the 

 length of the nasals." 



E. europceus typicus. 



" The skull may be distinguished by the frontal processes 

 of the premaxillas, which, although extending backward half 

 the length of the nasals, ends in a sharply defined point." 



NOTES ON PRODELPHINUS AND OTHER 

 DOLPHINS IN SCOTTISH WATERS. 



By WM. TAYLOR. 



In the " Annals " of last October, Mr. Boyd Watt of 

 Glasgow says there is no " record " of this Dolphin in British 

 waters. I think it should have been recorded long- ago 



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from various places along the coasts of Scotland. Mr. True, 

 in giving the habitat of ProdelpJiinus euplirosyne, mentions 

 Shetland and Orkney, giving the late Professor Bell as the 

 authority. I hardly think Mr. True (a specialist in Cetacea) 

 could have made a mistake, but Bell may have had little 

 material at hand to compare his skulls with, and may 

 have mistaken these Orkney specimens of ProdelpJiinus 

 for Lagenorhynchus acutus, and named his Dolphins 

 accordingly. 



The skeleton of ProdelpJiinus in the University College, 

 Dundee, was prepared from a " Tay " specimen. I am 

 certain I saw two skulls of ProdelpJiinus in the Hunterian 

 Museum, Glasgow. They are easily distinguished from the 



