2 TJie Scottish Naturalist. 



taken by herring fishermen .it Great Yarmouth in October 1845, 

 the skin and skeleton of which are now in the British Museum. 

 There is, however, a skull of one which was killed at Hartlepool 

 in 1834, in the museum of Cambridge University, the species not 

 having been recognised at the time. Gray, after an examination 

 of Brightwell's specimen, described it as a new species under the 

 name Lagenorhynchus albirostris. 



On the 29th December 1862 a full-grown male was found 

 stranded on " Little Hilbre," one of two closely contiguous 

 islands at the mouth of the Dee, Wales, and is described in the 

 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for 1863, p. 268, by 

 Thomas J. Moore, of the Liverpool Museum, to whom it had 

 been sent. In 1866 one was shot on the coast of Cromer, Nor- 

 folk, by H. M. Upcher of Sherringham Hall, the skull being 

 preserved in the British Museum. In 1867, according to BelU 

 a young male, whose skeleton is in the University of Cambridge, 

 was killed on the English coast. Dr Murie, in his ' Notes on 

 the -White-beaked Bottlenose ' (' Linn. Soc. Jour., vol. xi. p. 14 j ), 

 in 1870, describes the anatomy of a full-grown male, captured 

 a few years before on the south coast of England, part of the 

 viscera of which is preserved in the College of Surgeons, and 

 the skeleton in the British Museum. In September 1875 Dr 

 Cunningham obtained a young female, caught off Great Grimsby, 

 which he figured and described in the Zoological Society's Pro- 

 ceedings for 1876, the skeleton of which is in the Edinburgh 

 University Museum. The same volume also contains a paper by 

 Mr Clark on a young male caught on 26th March 1876, off 

 Lowestoft. 



In the 'Zoologist' for 1878, Mr A. G. More, Museum of 

 Science and Art, Dublin, says in reference to this species : " We 

 have long had in the Museum here a coloured cast of a Dolphin 

 captured some fifteen years ago in the vicinity of Dublin Bay, 

 which lately, by comparing a coloured sketch taken from the 

 fresh animal with the excellent figure given in the Proceedings 

 of Zoological Soc. for 1876, p. 679, pi. 64, I was able to identify 

 as D. albirostris, J. E. Gray." The last recorded specimen was a 

 young female captured by some Yarmouth fishermen on 24th 

 August 1878, which Mr Thomas Southwell of Norwich has 

 described in the ' Zoologist ' of that year. These are, so far as I 

 have been able to learn, all the British specimens which have 

 been recorded. On the Continent it has been taken at Ostend, 

 Keil, Bergen, Gullholmen, and Skanor. 



