MAMMALS 



Gorleston on the 8th of June 1891.' Of 

 this specimen Mr. Patterson observes : * * It 

 was drawn into the lifecboat shed and ex- 

 hibited, afterwards being preserved and taken 

 on tour to various parts of the country.' Mr. 

 Patterson also records* an adult specimen 

 stranded on Gorleston beach on 8 December 

 1896. 



40. Grampus. Orca gladiator, Lac^pidfe. 

 Mr. Patterson reports' an example 7 ft. 



6 in. long, taken into Lowestoft harbour on 

 12 November 1894. 



41. Porpoise. Phocana communis, F. Cuvier. 

 ' Small schools of this, the most frequently 



met with of the Cetaceans in our waters, are 



* * The Mammalia of Great Yarmouth and its 

 Immediate Neighbourhood,' Arthur Patterson, Zool. 

 1898, p. 309. 



frequently seen passing at sea, and individuals 

 are occasionally captured in the herring nets 

 and landed at Lowestoft.' — ^T. Southwell. 



42. Bottle-nosed Dolphin. Tursicps tursia. 



Fab. 

 Bell — De^hinus tursio. 

 The late Sir William Flower, in a letter to 

 Mr. T. Southwell, referring to a recent visit 

 to Felixstowe, observes : * besides common 

 porpoises frequently, we saw on the afternoon 

 of July 27th [1873] a pair oi Delphinus tursio 

 going south.' 



43. White-beaked Dolphin. Delphinus albi- 



rostris, J. E. Gray. 

 Among several examples which have come 

 under the notice of Mr. Patterson at or near 

 Yarmouth is one measuring 7 feet, taken at 

 Gorleston on 17 April 1890. 



ADDENDA 



1 9. Otter. Two young otters were found 

 by a lady on 23 May 1908, in a deep cart 

 rut in the marshes near the ' King's Fleet,' 

 not far from the mouth of the Deben. Three 

 and a half hours later a man visiting the spot 

 found them still lying there, one, however, 

 being dead. They were taken to Mr. Hud- 

 son of Ipswich (to whom I am indebted for 

 this information), who, on examining the dead 

 cub, found in its head two deep tooth marks, 

 making it appear that its death had been caused 

 by the bite of some animal. He managed to get 

 the other young otter to take some milk, and 

 eventually succeeded in rearing it. The dam 

 had probably been killed. 



30. Water Vole. On 14 February 1908 

 a female of the black variety, killed at Barn- 

 ham, near Thetford, was received for preser- 

 vation by Mr. H. C. Hudson of Ipswich. 



An albino of this species was caught 

 27 April 1908 near the water-mill at Little 

 Glemham. It was about three parts grown, 

 the fur being of the purest white all over, 

 long, soft, and abundant ; the eyes red. This 

 specimen has been sent by Mr. E. J. Rope to 

 the Ipswich Museum. 



36. Fallow Deer. The number of fallow 

 deer in Flixton Hall Park, as I am informed 

 by Mr. C. S. Joy, is at the present time 

 (1908) about 260. 



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