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they live, all militate against the rapid accumulation of facts relating 

 to their occurrence. . 



The species which is the subject of this paper, although recorded 

 as British so long ago as 1846, has not yet been added to our list 

 of Scottish fauna. Mr. Alston in his paper "On the Mammalia of 

 Scotland," read to this Society in April last year, referring to this 

 species, says, "The White-beaked Dolphin is another species whose 

 appearance in Scottish waters is to be expected, as it seems 

 frequently to visit the Faroes, and the east coast of England 

 (Cunningham, P.Z.S., 1876, p. 686), but as yet its actual occurrence 

 does not seem to have been recorded." 



This species was first figured and described by Brightwell in the 

 "A?inals and Magazine of Natural History" (vol. xvii. p. 21), in 

 1846, under the name of Delphinus tursio, Fabr., from a female 

 taken by herring fishermen off 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 

 LagenorJi ynchus 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, in 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, Norfolk, by H. M. Upcher 

 of Sherringham Hall, the skull being preserved in the British 

 Museum. In 1867, according to Bell, 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. 

 Sqc. Jour." vol. xi. p. 141), 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 Soc. 

 Proceedings 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. 



