ON THE FAUNA OF IRELAND. 363 
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P. vitulina and Hal. Gryphus only, in this family, have 
with certainty been recognised as Irish species; they both in- 
habit the coasts from north to south. - 
_ Precise information is much wanted with reference to P. 
_barbata as a British species ; and as such, P. graenlandica (or 
the animal so considered to be) is a recent addition to the ca- 
talocue. Trich. Rosmarus very rarely occurs in the Hebrides 
and in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 
Order 7. CETE. 
Fam. Delphinide. 
Lreland. Great Britain. 
Delphinus Delphis, L. + 
0 Delphinus Tursio, Fabr. 
Phoczena communis, Less. + 
», Orca, F. Cuv. a 
»  Melas, Bell. 
0 Beluga leucas, Bell 
Hyperoodon Butzkopf, Lacep. + 
0 Diodon Sowerbei, Jard. 
0 Monodon Monoceros, Z. 
D. Delphis, P. communis and P. Orca are considered to pre- 
vail on various parts of the coast of Ireland, the second to be 
the most common, the last the rarest ; of all, I have seen native 
“specimens, but cannot from personal knowledge speak of the 
comparative abundance or scarcity of the species. P. melas 
has been observed on the western and southern coasts; Hyp. 
Butzkopf along the eastern coast. The four Delphinide 
which cannot be enumerated in the Irish catalogue are very 
‘are as British species; of Diodon Sowerbei a single speci- 
“men only is on record. 
Fam. Balenide. 
+ Ireland. Great Britain. 
_ Physeter macrocephalus, Z. a 
as Tursio, LZ. + 
Balena Mysticetus, L. + 
_ Balznoptera Boops, Flem. + 
_ According to Dr. Molyneux*, the ‘‘Spermaceti Whale” 
as been captured on the north and north-west coasts. Smith 
tices one, taken near Youghal; and Rutty, in his Natural 
distory of Dublin, mentions an individual as cast ashore in 
766. Templeton states that Phys. Tursio is of occasional oc- 
currence in the West. Bal. Mysticetus has been rarely cap- 
tured on various parts of the coast. Of a Balenoptera (Ba- 
léna rostrata) which was taken on the western coast some years 
ago a very full account has been published by Dr. Jacob in the 
Dublin Philosophical Journal. 
* Phil. Trans., vol. xix. 1795-6, p. 508. 
