100 Dr. Clark on the Capture of a Bottle-nosed Dolphin. 
Fig. 5. Ditto, showing a small proteus attached to the side of a transparent 
cavity in ditto. 
Fig. 6. Ditto, in the act of surrounding a foreign body. 
Fig. 7. Most striking forms assumed by proteans, developed from the matter 
of the seed-like bodies (seen at various times), magnified. 
Puate V. 
Fig. 1. Remarkable forms assumed by proteans, developed from the matter 
of the seed-like bodies, magnified. 
. General form of large spiculuin, ditto. 
. Magnified view of spiniferous spiculum. 
Fig. 
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X.—WNotice of a Bottle-nosed Dolphin (Delphinus Tursio, Fabr.) 
upon the Suffolk coast. By W. B. Crarxn, M.D. 
A sPECIMEN of this Dolphin has been sent to the Ipswich Mu- 
seum within a few days; it was discovered upon the beach at 
Bawdsey, which is a village about fourteen miles from Ipswich. 
The animal was stranded on the shore and left by the retiring 
tide. There are many regular transverse marks across the anterior 
edge of the dorsal fin, and across the back posterior to that fin : 
there was also a deep wound in the underside of its throat, a little 
anterior to the sternal region, apparently inflicted by a lance, and 
also various marks upon several parts of the body, as if produced 
by the blunt hook and point of a “ boat-hook.” By these I am 
induced to suppose that the creature was entangled at sea, in the 
net of some fishing vessel, the crew of which, upon finding it 
there, exerted their best means of despatching it, and afterwards 
turned it adrift. 
Prof. Bell remarks (in his History of Brit. Quad. including the 
Cetacea), ‘Considerable ambiguity appears to have rested upon 
this rare species of northern Dolphin, which has been gradually 
removed by Desmarest, G. Cuvier, and particularly by F. Cuvier, 
in his admirable book already quoted (Fr. Cuv. Hist. Nat. Cet. 
p- 141).” It now appears certain that the ‘‘ Nisarnak ” of Fa- 
bricius and of Bonnaterre, and the first of the two Bottle-nosed 
Whales figured by Hunter, are identical with the Delphinus 
Tursio. Desmarest and G. Cuvier had at first considered them 
distinct, but the latter distinguished naturalist afterwards cor- 
rected the error, and his brother kas subsequently fully esta- 
blished their identity. 
The first account which we have of its appearance on our 
shores is that of J. Hunter, in which he considers it as the com- 
mon Dolphin, Delphinus Delphis. The specimen figured (Hun- 
ter, Phil. Trans. 1787, p. 373. t. 18) was caught, says Hunter, 
upon the sea-coast near Berkeley, where it had been seen for 
several days following its mother, and was taken along with the 
old one: the latter was 11 feet long. 
