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under which name it appears in the works of Bell and 

 Alston ; but Professor Turner, who, I understand, has the 

 skeleton of the animal in the Anatomical Museum, states 

 that the skull does not possess the broad lofty crests of 

 Gray's supposed species, which is now known to be merely 

 the adult male of H. rostratus. Bell, I observe, further states 

 that the calf which accompanied this specimen was a male, 

 whereas Thompson says distinctly it was a female. Neither 

 does the skeleton of the mother appear to be in the Museum 

 of Science and Art, as stated by Bell and Alston, but in the 

 Anatomical Museum of the University. 



2. A female, 26 feet long and 15 feet in girth, captured at 

 Grangemouth on 23rd September 1879: examined by Professor 

 Turner. 



3. An animal said to be 14i feet long, found dead on the 

 shore at Blackness on 24th September 1879, and supposed to 

 be the young of the last mentioned. 



4. Two examples, probably mother and calf, stranded at 

 South Queensferry in September 1883: sold to an oil merchant 

 in Kirkcaldy. 



5. A young male, 20 feet 6 inches long (22 feet following 

 the curvature of the back), found on the beach between 

 Tyninghame links and Peffer burn, near Dunbar, on 4th 

 November 1885 (" Scotsman," 5th November) : procured by 

 Professor Turner, and described in his paper above referred to. 



In the "Scots Magazine" for 1808 (p. 37), the occurrence 

 of an example oi " Delphinus hidens" (Turton's name for the 

 present species) was thus recorded by Patrick Neill : — •' In 

 the beginning of December [1807], during a strong breeze ; 

 a Bottlenose Whale {Delphinus hidens) twenty-one feet long, 

 was stranded near Goulon Point, in East Lothian. The 

 country people instantly stripped off the blubber, leaving 

 the krang or carcase to those who should come after ! " 



