SEALS AND WHALES OF THE L.M.B.C. DISTRICT. 147 
round the curve it was twenty-one inches. The eye was 
seven-eighths of an inch long by half an inch. The orifice 
of the ear was two and a half inches behind the eye ina 
shghtly diagonal direction, and was less in diameter than a 
puncture by an ordinary pin. The transverse diameter of 
the blow-hole was one and three-quarters inches, and the 
longitudinal one inch, the points being directed forwards. 
The skin was stuffed, though with much difficulty, owing 
to its want of tenacity; and the contrast of colour became 
almost imperceptible. The skeleton was mounted in due 
course, and continues to be exhibited alongside the stuffed 
skin, a combination rarely possible, but repeated in the 
case of a Pilot Whale, Globicephalus svineval, from the 
Humber, June 9th, 1862, the skin and skeleton of which 
are also exhibited close by. 
The dimensions of the skull are as follows :— 
Inches, 
otailblemonnt, (sasseys.t.2aibedseeerseeets 194 
Temeoth or NOse® coasters este cs 9 
AGE ab OVO, coun nies geen seeks 10 
Widthiat Ndtehes=«...2. ties eh sez, 53 
Width middle of nose «..:2.. 02.22%. 43 
Length of lower jaw .............0.00 153 
Wadith of condyles-:<..222 2.24262 sess: 9 
Teeth $3, $3, curved, and acute where not slightly worn. 
Delphinus delphis, Linn. 
A specimen of this Dolphin* was found on the Cheshire 
shore, at New Brighton, February 13th, 1879, minus its 
tail, evidently cut off by collision with the fan of a screw 
steamship. ‘Two accurate coloured drawings,t showing 
* Bell's “Brit. Quad,” ed. 2, p. 462; Gray’s “‘Catal.,” p. 242; Flower’s 
‘List of Cetacea,” p. 24. 
+ These drawings agree very closely with the coloured plate given in the 
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London for 1879, vol. xi., pl. 1, in 
