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those which then escaped two were captured near Tullibody 
and two near Stirling. They were of various lengths, from 
9 to 20 feet, and of both sexes. From the detailed measure- 
ments given of one of the largest, we learn that the length of 
the dorsal fin was 3 feet 3 inches, the length of the flippers 
3 feet, and their breadth 2 feet 3 inches. From these facts, 
and the statements that “the back and sides were jet black, 
and shining; the belly pure white; and there was a large 
oblong white compartment behind each eye;” also that 
“there were two beautiful rows of teeth, 24 in each jaw, 
making 48 in all,” there can be no doubt the animals 
belonged, as Neill inferred, to the present species, and not to 
the next, the Caaing Whale, as the writer of the “ New 
Statistical Account” of Alloa (Clackmannanshire, 1840, p. 9) 
seems to have thought. 
Fleming, in his “British Animals” (1828, p. 84), states 
that in the Firth of Tay, the Grampus “goes nearly as far 
up as the salt-water reaches, almost every tide at flood, 
during the months of July and August, in pursuit of salmon, 
of which it devours immense numbers.” In -all likelihood 
the animals on whose movements this statement was based, 
represented other species besides the present. The latest 
authenticated capture of the Killer in our waters of which I 
have a note is that recorded by the late Mr John Gibson in 
the Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society (vol. iv., p. 99). 
The record refers to a male having the following dimen- 
sions :—Total length along the curve of the back, 21 feet 
10 inches; girth of body, 13 feet; height of dorsal fin, 3 feet 
10 inches. It was captured about a mile west of Granton, 
on 18th March 1876, and “on being dragged ashore, while 
still alive, it gave forth shrill piercing cries, somewhat 
resembling in their sharpness a woman’s voice.” . 
A few years ago, I observed in the seaward portion of the 
Firth of Forth several Cetaceans, which, from the height 
and shape of their dorsal fins, I took to be of the present 
species, 
