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SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. 



and Denmark, also at Ostend, but little is known of its habits. A Dolphin of 

 this species was killed at Hartlepool in 1834, but not recognized at the time : 

 the skull is now in the Cambridge Museum. This species was, I believe, first 

 described as British by Mr. Brightwell, under the name of D. tursio, from a 

 specimen taken off Yarmouth, in 1846. His paper, with a figure from a 

 drawing made by Miss Brightwell, will be found in the 'Ann. and Mag. of 

 Nat. Hist.,' first series, January, 1846, vol. xvii, p. 21. Another specimen was 



Fig. 29. White-beaked Dolphin {Delphinus alberostHs, J. E. Gray). 



shot by Mr. H. M. Upcher, near Cromer, and will be found recorded by Dr. 

 Gray in the same Magazine, for April, 1866, vol. xvii., p. 312. A fourth, an 

 adult male, 9 feet long, was taken at the mouth of the Dee, in December, 

 1862 ; and a fifth on the south coast, in 1871. 



In September, 1875, a young female was taken off Grimsby, and in 

 March, 1876, a young male was captured off Lowestoft, The first-named of 

 these latter formed the subject of a communication to the Zoological Society 

 of London, by Dr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, and the latter of a subsequent 



