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specimens are recorded from the English Channel. One of 

 these was caught near Chichester in 1875, and was kept alive 

 for a day in the Brighton Aquarium; while the other was 

 captured in 1886, in the same manner and near the same locality 

 as the first one already described by Professor Flower. In 1889 

 a shoal of some nine or ten was seen off Hillswick, Shetland, 

 of which six — two males and four females— were captured by 

 fishermen. The crania of four and the entire skeletons of 

 two individuals were secured by Sir William Turner for the 

 Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh (Proc. Roy. 

 Phys. Soc. Edin., Vol. XL, pp. 192-197). In the Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History for 1893, pp. 1-6, Mr. Robert Service 

 describes two females taken from the Solway Firth. The first, 

 10 feet 3 inches in length, was found stranded, after the tide 

 had ebbed, in a pool at a spot close to Battlehill, near Annan; 

 the other, 8 feet long, was caught in the same manner at 

 Carsethorn, about fourteen miles from Dumfries, the skeleton 

 of which he procured for the Museum of Science and Art, 

 Edinburgh, where it is now exhibited. In 1899 another was 

 captured some miles to the east of the Isle of May by some 

 fishermen, and the skull, which is also in the Edinburgh Museum 

 of Science and Art, is described by Dr. Traquair (Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 His., 1899, pp. 1-3). Professor D'Arcy Thompson, in the Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History for June, 1901 (Vol. VII., 

 No. 42, p. 503), in a " Note on a Dolphin showing Traces of 

 an Encounter with a Cuttlefish," records the occurrence of a 

 specimen which he had obtained from Galway at Christmas, 1900. 



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

 specimens that have been recorded, and the one referred to by 

 Professor Thompson is, as far as I know, the first record of this 

 species from the Irish coast. 



This species was first described in 1812 by Cuvier {Ann. du 

 Mus., XIX., 14), under the name of Delphinus griseus, from a 

 drawing and the skeleton of a specimen taken at Brest. Since 

 then other specimens have been recorded at different times 

 from the French coast, the descriptions of which more or less 

 differ in regard to the number of teeth and the colour of the 

 animals. In 1822 Deemarest established another cetacean under 

 the name of Delphinus rissoanus from a figure and description 



