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HYPEROODON ROSTRATUS (Chemnitz). BEAKED WHALE. 
We now pass to the toothed Cetaceans, and the first 
species falling to be noticed is the Beaked or Bottle-nosed 
Whale, which appears to be an irregular but not very 
uncommon visitor to our shores in autumn. The Proceedings 
of the Royal Physical Society for 1885-86 (vol. ix., pp. 25-47) 
contains a valuable paper by Sir William Turner, F.R.S., on 
the occurrence of the species in the Scottish seas, in which 
he gives particulars of the following among other authenti- 
cated Scottish examples. It will be observed that, with one ~ 
exception, they are females, each accompanied by a young 
calf. 
1. An adult female, 28} feet long, accompanied by a young 
female 9 feet long, captured at Alloa on 29th October 1845, 
and identified by the late Professor John Goodsir (see paper 
by Wm. Thompson in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History for 1846, vol. xvii., p. 153, where it is mentioned 
under Lacépéde’s name, H. Butzkopf). As pointed out by 
Professor Turner, an erroneous date (1839), which originated - 
with the late Dr J. E. Gray (“Catalogue of Seals and 
Whales,” 1866, p. 331), has been very generally assigned 
to this specimen. Dr Gray (op. cit., p. 339) also referred to 
it as an example of his Hyperoddon (Lagenocetus) latifrons, 
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 143 feet long, found dead on the 
