The Scottish Naturalist. 



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The individual which I now describe — a young male — was 

 taken by some fishermen near the Bell Rock on the 7th Septem- 

 ber last, and came into the hands of Mr Walker, a fish merchant 

 in Glasgow, who presented it to the Kelvingrove Museum on the 

 9th, in good condition. 



The following are a few measurements taken at the time : — 



Ft. 



Skull :— 



Length, entire 



Length of nose from front 



oH 



Greatest breadth of pec- 

 toral o 

 Breadth of caudal . o 

 Height of dorsal . . o 

 Circumference of thickest 



part ... 3 



Width of orbit . . o 



Width of blow-hole . o 



Width of middle of beak o 

 Width of lower jaw at 



condyles o 



Length of lower jaw along 

 one side, from condyles 

 to symphysis . . o 



In. 



3 l 4 



il4 



2H 

 10 



In shape and colour it resembled more closely the Lowestoft 

 specimen described by Mr Clark ; the body tapering gradually 

 from the dorsal fin, and, like the female described by Mr South- 

 well, it did not exhibit the humped appearance described by Dr 

 Cunningham. The beaked shape of the head was very marked, 

 the upper lip projecting i*4 inch beyond the head, which had 

 a gradually-rounded outline. On each side of the upper lip were 

 four black bristles, which projected but slightly through the 

 skin. 



The general colour above was a beautiful purplish-black, the 

 entire beak from the furrow dividing it from the head, and the 

 ventral surface till within 21 inches from the cleft of the tail, 

 was of a satiny-white, slighdy yellowish on the under surface. 

 Above the pectoral fins and behind the eye was a greyish-white 

 spot, thickly splashed or streaked with brown ; a similar linear- 

 shaped spot ran in an oblique direction from slightly before the 

 dorsal fin, in the direction of the vent, and a larger one, which 

 measured about 13 inches long and about 3 inches wide, ran 

 along the side behind the dorsal. 



The ear-opening was very small, and could be detected with 

 difficulty, barely admitting an ordinary pin. 



