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sorts. The bigger beareth the name of Dolphin, and our 
fishers call them Meer-swines. The lesser is called Phocena, 
a Porpess” (“History of Fife and Kinross,” new ed., 1803, 
p. 115). In his “Phalainologia nova” (p. 6) he also men- 
tions the “ Delphinus,” as distinguished from the “ Orca” and 
“ Phocena,’ and gives an excellent figure of it, so that there 
is reason to believe some at least of his Dolphins were the 
true one. Attention may also be drawn to the fact that 
Don includes the species in his list of Forfarshire animals 
(“ Headrick’s Agriculture of Angus,” App., p. 39). 
In the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, there is 
exhibited a stuffed specimen of the Dolphin, labelled “ Firth 
of Forth,”. but I have not been able to learn more of its 
history. It is understood to have been preserved at least 
thirty to thirty-five years ago. 
From these somewhat unsatisfactory records, we pass to - 
the following recent. and authentic occurrence of Delphinus 
delphis in the Firth of Forth. On February 1887, a boating 
party observed a school of six or eight small Cetaceans 
swimming about in pairs in a bay on the Dalmeny estate 
between South Queensferry and Hound’s Point, and succeeded 
in shooting one, which proved to be a female of this species, 
measuring in a straight line 5 feet 54 inches. It was procured 
by Sir William Turner for the museum of the University, 
and is fully described by him in the Proceedings of the Royal 
Physical Society (vol. ix., p. 346). 
Tursiops TuRSIO (Fab.). BOoTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN. 
The following museum specimens furnish the only records I 
can find of the occurrence of this species within our bounds, 
namely :—Two specimens—a stuffed skin and a skeleton, 
perhaps taken from the same animal—in the Edinburgh 
Museum of Science and Art, labelled “ Firth of Forth”; the 
skeleton of another, also from the Forth, which, according 
to Bell and Alston, formed part of the University collection 
formerly kept in the Surgeons’ Hall; and three skeletons and 
a skull, all likewise from the Firth of Forth, in the zoological 
department of the British Museum. 
