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- and we may safely predict that its authentication for that 
area is only a matter of time. 
On 7th September 1880 a young male was captured near 
the Bell Rock, and presented to the Kelvingrove Museum, 
Glasgow. This individual, which measured 5 feet 8 inches, 
was fully described by Mr J. M. Campbell at a meeting of 
the Glasgow Natural History Society on 30th November 
1880, and in the Scottish Naturalist for January 1881 (p. 1). 
In July 1881, an example was caught off Berwick, and 
in August 1883 another specimen—a young female—was 
also taken off Berwick and secured for the Kelso Museum, 
where its stuffed skin is preserved. The skulls of these 
two animals were handed over by the late Mr Andrew 
Brotherston to Sir William Turner, to whose “ Notes” 
on the species, published in the Proceedings of the Royal 
Physical Society for 1888-89 (vol. x., p. 14), I would refer 
those who desire further information regarding the occurrence 
of this Cetacean in Scottish waters. The only examples I 
have myself seen in the flesh were an adult female and a 
young male, which were taken together off Stonehaven, 
Kincardineshire, in July 1888, and placed on view in the 
shop of Mr Anderson, fishmonger, Edinburgh. Both were 
purchased for the Anatomical Museum of the University by 
Professor Turner, who has given a minute description of them 
in his paper above referred to. The mother measured 8 feet 
6 inches in length, and the calf 3 feet 11 inches. 
It will be noted that this species has been observed on our 
coasts only during the months of July, August, and September. 
DELPHINUS DELPHIS J. COMMON DOLPHIN. 
The Dolphin, being more of a southern species than most 
of the other Cetaceans here mentioned, is probably only an 
occasional visitant to our shores. 
The “Dolphin,” as distinguished from the Porpoise, was 
specifically mentioned by Sibbald as occurring in the Firths of 
Forth and Tay in the seventeenth century, and their relative 
sizes were correctly indicated. His words are as follows :— 
“Of these [Delphinidz] in both these firths there are two 
