192 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Socvety. 
XI. The Occurrence of Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus) 77 
the Shetland Seas. By Professor Sir WILLIAM TURNER, 
F.R.S. 
(Read 16th December 1891.) 
Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus, G. Cuvier), which, from 
the peculiar striped character of the skin, presents so remark- 
able an appearance, has from time to time been captured in 
European waters. In the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic 
seaboard of France, several specimens have been obtained, 
and solitary individuals have been caught on the coasts of 
Portugal, Sweden, and Holstein. 
Specimens have also been occasionally taken in the English 
Channel. In the spring of 1843 one was killed at Puckaster, 
in the Isle of Wight.1 A female was caught in February 
1870 in a mackerel-net near the Eddystone Lighthouse ;* 
another female was sold in Billingsgate Market in March in 
the same year, and was probably captured in the Channel ;* 
an immature male was taken alive in the English Channel in 
July 1875 at Sidlesham, near Chichester, and was kept 
alive for twenty-four hours in the Brighton Aquarium* In 
February 1886 a female was caught in a mackerel-net about 
twenty miles south of the Eddystone, and was exhibited in 
Plymouth.° ! 
So far as I can ascertain, no specimen has yet been 
described as caught in Scottish waters. The following 
account, therefore, will be of interest, as giving both a 
Scottish habitat for this dolphin and the most northerly 
point (lat. 61°) at which this animal has been seen. In 
1 Recorded by Rev. C. A. Bury, Zoologist, vol. iii., p. 813, 1845. The sex 
is not stated. The skull is in the British Museum. 
* Described and figured by Professor Flower, C.B., Trans. Zool. Soc., 1871. 
The skeleton is in the British Museum. 
3 Described and figured by Dr James Murie, Jour. Anat. and Phys., Nov. 
1870, vol. v.; also by Professor Flower (supra). The stuffed skin and 
skeleton are in the British Museum. 
4H. Lee in Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 808. 
5 Described by Mr F. H. Balkwill in Trans. Plymouth Institute, parts ii. 
and iii., 1886-87. The skeleton is preserved in the Plymouth Museum. The 
skin was presented to the Exeter Museum. 
