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largest «i was estimated by the fishermen to weigh 
fifty stones.” 
Early in March 1870 an adult female, measuring 74 feet 
in length and weighing 33 stones, was captured in Mr 
Speedie’s stake-nets, at the Tentsmuir station, mouth of the 
Eden, near St Andrews, and secured for the Anatomical 
Museum of the Edinburgh University by Professor Turner, 
who gave an account of it in the Jowrnal of Anatomy and 
Physiology (vol. iv., p. 270). According to Mr Walker (Scot. 
Nat., iii., 159), another was captured along with the above ; 
and Professor Turner states that in the previous spring two 
young examples, captured in the salmon-nets near Montrose, 
were sent to the Anatomical Museum. 
At the mouth of the Tay I have myself frequently seen 
large Seals, undoubtedly belonging to this species. In the 
autumn of 1886 I had an excellent view of one gamboling 
with its cub on a sandbank at the mouth of the Eden. 
Walker, it will be observed, notes it to the Carr Rock, which 
therefore gives it a place in the fauna of the Forth. I well 
remember the large number of Seals which, twenty-five to 
thirty years ago, annually appeared about harvest-time in the 
Tyne estuary near Dunbar, many of which, I am persuaded, 
belonged to this species. 
[PHOCA GR@NLANDICA Fabr. GREENLAND OR HARP SEAL. 
A young Seal obtained many years ago at the mouth of 
the Firth of Forth was somewhat doubtfully referred by 
MacGillivray to this species (“British Quadrupeds,” 1838, 
p. 209). It does not appear to have been preserved, so that 
we have now no means of judging of the correctness of his 
surmise. In former years, when this Seal was more abundant 
in its northern habitats, it is not improbable that one or 
two may have occasionally wandered to-our shores, but as 
our information at present stands, we would scarcely be 
justified in giving the species a full place on our list.] 
PHOCA VITULINA JZ. CoMMON SEAL. 
Although not so abundant as formerly, this is still a 
common animal in the Firths of Forth and Tay, where it 
