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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 of “ Delphinus bidens” (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 lidens) 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!” 
MESOPLODON BIDENS (Sowerby). SOWERBY’S WHALE. 
Of this comparatively scarce species only one example is 
known to have reached the shores of the south-east of Scot- 
land. It was found in Dalgety Bay, near Aberdour, on the 
north side of the Firth of Forth, in October 1888, by one of 
the Earl of Moray’s gamekeepers. The head, skeleton, and 
viscera were procured by Sir William Turner, who gave a 
description of the specimen at a meeting of the Royal Physical 
Society in December following (Proceedings, vol. x., p. 5), and 
subsequently described its stomach in the Journal of Anatomy 
and Physiology (vol. xxiii.). The animal was a male. Its 
extreme length in a straight line was 15 feet 1 inch, and its 
weight 15 cwts. The skeleton is preserved in the Anatomical 
Museum of the Edinburgh University. 
As this Cetacean is probably a migratory species, visiting 
the shores of Northern Europe in the fall of the year, we may 
reasonably look forward to the occurrence of other examples 
in our waters at no very distant date. 
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