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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



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. albirostvis, J. E. Gray." 

 The last recorded specimen was a young female captured by some 

 Yarmouth fishermen on 25th August, 1879, which Mr. Thomas 

 Southwell of Norwich has described in the "Zoologist" of that year, 

 the skull of which is in the Norwich Museum. 



These are, so far as I have been able to learn, all the British speci- 

 mens which have been recorded. On the Continent it has been 

 taken at Ostend, Keil, Bergen, Gullholmen, and Skanbr. 



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

 by some fishermen near the Bell Kock, on the 7th September 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: — 



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. Southwell, it 

 did not exhibit the humped appearance described by Dr. Cunning- 



