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92 were captured at Stornoway (Nat. Libr., XVI., pp. 214-215). 

 In July 1869 about 200 visited the same place, and were almost 

 all secured. Tlie coasts of the mainland of Scotland are more 

 rarely visited, but in April 1867 a school, estimated at 200, entered 

 the Firth of Forth, between 20 and 30 of them being secured 

 (Alston, Zoologist, 1867, pp. 801-803). These specimens were well 

 utilized in the cause of science; one of them afforded the material 

 for Dr. Murie's excellent monograph of the anatomy of the 

 species (Tr. Z. >$., vin., pp. 235-301); the structure of another was 

 described by Prof. Turner (Jour. Anat. and Phys., n., pp. 66-79); 

 the skeleton of a third is in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and 

 Art; and that of a fourth in the Museum of the University of 

 Glasgow. A single Pilot-Whale was cast up on the Berwickshire 

 coast in 1856 (Hardy, Zoologist, 1856, p. 5095), and stragglers 

 have occurred on the shores of England, and even in the Channel 

 (Bell's Br. Quad., 2nd ed., p. 454). 



35. Phocoena communis, F. Guvier. 



Porpoise. 



Shetl, Nisack (from- Norse, Xisse, a hobgoblin?). 



Scot., Pelloch (from the Gaelic'?) 



Gael, Puthag (lit., the blower). 



By far the commonest Scottish Cetacean, and especially abundant 

 among the Islands. Both Low and Baikie and Heddle observe that 

 they appear to be migratory in Orkney, none being seen in winter 

 (Faun. Ore, p. 163; Hist. Nat. Ore, p. 21), and the same obser- 

 vation has been made in the north of Europe and in Greenland. 



36. Delphinus tursio, Fabricius. 



Bottle-nosed Dolphin. 



The only Scottish specimens of which I have been able to learn 

 are two, the skeletons of which are preserved in the Museum of 

 Science and Art and the Museum of Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, 

 and which are stated to have been captured many years ago in the 

 Firth of Forth (cf. Bell's Br. Quad., 2nd ed., p. 468). Dr. Murie 

 informs me that herds of this species sometimes appear off the 

 west coast. 



37. Delphinus acutus, Gray. 



White-sided Dolphin. 



This beautiful Dolphin appears not to be very rare in the 



