312 Miscellaneous. 
Clinus Philippii, Steind. 
Depth contained 4} times in the total length ; dorsal with nineteen 
spines; fringed tentacles over the eves and nasal apertures and on 
the nape ; large, irregular, pale spots on the base of the dorsal fin and 
on the back. 
Brycon lineatus, Steind. 
A blackish spot above the foremost scales of the lateral line; a 
black longitudinal band on the middle rays of the caudal fin ; brown 
longitudinal lines on the posterior half of the body.—L. lat. 56-57. 
Platycephalus angustus, Steind. 
Length of head contained 34 times in the total length, and breadth 
of head once and five-sixths in its length; two small preeopercular 
spines, of nearly equal length; dorsal with nine spines; caudal with 
three deep-black longitudinal bands upon a milk-white ground; 
body pale brown, with small, roundish, faintly marked spots and two 
transverse bands on its posterior half.—ericht der Akad. der Wiss. 
in Wien, 1866, pp. 19 & 20. 
The White-beaked Bottlenose. 
A specimen of Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Gray (Cat. of Seals and 
Whales in the British Museum, p. 272), has been shot on the coast of 
Cromer by Mr. H. M. Upcher, of Sherringham Hall, who has kindly 
presented the skull to the British Museum. This is only the second 
time that the animal has been observed on the British coast. It 
was first described by Mr. Brightwell in the ‘Annals & Mag. of Nat. 
Hist.’ for 1846, vol. xvii. p. 21, t. 1.—J. E. G. 
Domesticated Whales. 
The Whitefish, or White Whale, was kept for some time alive in 
atank in America. ‘“ He was sufficiently well trained during the time 
he was in confinement to allow himself to be harnessed to a car, in 
which he drew a young lady around the tank; he learned to recog- 
nize his keeper, and would allow himself to be handled by him, and 
at the proper time would come and put his head out of the water to 
receive the harness or take his food.” ‘‘ He was less docile than a 
specimen of Delphinus Tursio which was for a time with him in the 
same tank.” (Wyman, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. 1863, p. 603.) 
Capture of a Ribbonfish. 
A very fine specimen of a Ribbonfish (Gymnetrus Banksit), with 
the crest in a very good state, has been caught at West Hartlepool, 
on the coast of Northumberland. It is 14 feet long, and, like the 
other specimens which have been taken on the north-east coast of 
England, was found in shallow water, in a wounded condition. It 
has been shown by the fishermen at Stockton-on-Tees. 
