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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 52.] 1916 [April 



EDITORIAL. 



Dr Sidney F. Harmer, keeper of Zoology in the British 

 Museum, has recent!)- recorded^ the occurrence of two 

 specimens of Cuvier's Whale {^Ziphius cavirostris) on the 

 southern coast of Ireland. The only previous occurrence 

 of this rare Cetacean in British waters is that recorded by 

 the late Sir William Turner on the evidence of a skull 

 obtained off Hamna Voe, Shetland, in 1870, and now in 

 the Anatomical Museum of Edinburgh University. Dr 

 Harmer was unable to trace the male Irish specimen referred 

 to by Van Beneden in 1888, although he suspects that the 

 species is not such an uncommon visitor to our shores as 

 has hitherto been supposed. The two specimens recorded 

 in the present paper were stranded in counties Wexford and 

 Cork respectively, and their general appearance, skulls and 

 teeth, are carefully described by the author. Cuvier's Whale 

 is a native of the Northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, 

 and has occurred on the coasts of Sweden, Denmark, and 

 France. 



In the March number of British Birds there are some 

 interesting records of recoveries of marked birds. Perhaps 

 the most worthy of note are a Linnet and a Pied Wagtail 

 ringed in England, as nestlings, in July and August 191 5, 



1 Proc. Zool. Sac. Land., December 191 5, pp. 559-66. 



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