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Three more were captured on the 22nd, and one or two others ~ 
were cast dead on shore by the tide. These particulars are 
mainly taken from an account of the occurrence communi- 
cated by the late Mr E. R. Alston to the Zoologist (1867, 
p. 801). One of the animals (a female, 15 feet 2 inches in 
length), of which Mr Alston gives a description, was taken 
to Glasgow by a party of Newhaven fishermen and exhibited 
as a “Grampus,” shoals of which, they said, were often seen 
about the Bass Rock, but it was very rarely they entered the 
Firth. Several of the animals captured on this occasion were 
secured for scientific purposes, with the result that our know- 
ledge of the organisation of the species was greatly increased 
(see, for instance, Sir William Turner’s paper in the Journal 
of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. ii., and Dr Murie’s treatise in 
the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. viii.). 
The skeletons of two of the animals are preserved in Kdin- 
burgh—one in the Museum of Science and Art, the other in 
the Anatomical Museum of the University. 
The Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. 
vii., p. 509, contains a record by Dr Hardy of an example 
14 feet long, which came ashore in October 1875 at Burn- 
mouth, near Berwick; and on 3rd August last (1891) two 
small whales, which—as reported in the Scotsman—were 
stranded at St Margaret's Hope, near North Queensferry, 
also belonged to this species, as Iam informed by Mr John 
Simpson, assistant to Sir William Turner. 
LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRIS, Gray. WHITE-BEAKED 
DOLPHIN. 
Up to the date of the publication of Alston’s list of 
Scottish Mammalia, no authentic instance of the occurrence 
of the White-beaked Dolphin in the Scottish seas was known. 
Since then several have been taken on different parts of our 
coasts, both east and west. Although it has not, as yet, been 
identified in the waters of the Forth, the fact that it has 
been captured off the mouth of the Tay on the one hand, and 
off the Tweed on the other, renders it highly probable that a 
few occasionally visit the seaward portion of the Forth also, 
