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life, and my first anxiety was to obtain a vessel large 
enough to form a bath for it. This I succeeded, after some 
delay, in securing in a turtle tank belonging to Mr. Hulse, 
at the back of the present Sessions’ House; but, to my great 
mortification, the creature gave up the ghost (with con- 
siderable violence, too) at the very moment when we were 
prepared to remove him into the tank. It was then getting 
dark, and the poor animal had thus lived about eight hours 
out of water. It was a male; and upon endeavouring to 
make out the species, I was agreeably surprised to find it 
approximate most nearly to the description of the White- 
beaked Bottle-nose (Lagenorhynchus albirostris),* as given 
in Dr. Gray’s ‘Catalogue of Cetacea in the British 
Museum,” p. 99, and in the ‘‘ Zoology of the Voyage of 
the Erebus and Terror,” p. 35, the skull agreeing well with 
the figures in the latter work, pl. 11. I subsequently sent 
the skull to Dr. Gray for comparison; and he confirmed 
my supposition of its being an individual of the species 
above named, namely, L. albirostris, which was founded 
upon a specimen taken at Great Yarmouth in October, 
1845, and recorded by Mr. Brightwell in the ‘‘ Annals for 
1846” (vol. xvu., p. 21, pl. 2) under the name of Delphinus 
tursto. This addition to our local fauna was a matter of 
considerable interest, as its place of capture comes within 
the range taken by Byerley in his ‘‘ Fauna of Liverpool,”’ 
1854, and in which only two Cetaceans are recorded, 
namely, Phocena communis and Hyperoodon rostratus. 
The general colour was arich black. A long and narrow 
greyish streak extended on either side diagonally across 
the ribs; and a similar greyish hue occurred on each side 
of the dorsal ridge, extending nearly from the fluke to the 
tail. The beak white, irregularly blotched with blackish, 
* Delphinus albirostris, Gray, Bell’s ‘Brit. Quad.,” ed. 2, p. 472; LZ. 
albirostris, Gray’s ‘‘Catal.,” p. 272; Flower’s ‘‘List of Cetacea,” p. 22. 
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