272 AN EAST COAST NATURALIST 



cetaceans visited the Norfolk coast. My first 

 record was a White - beaked Dolphin (Delphinus 

 albirostris), 4 feet 8 inches in length, that was 

 washed up dead on the beach at Yarmouth on 

 19th April. I found the skull and fragments of 

 another on 14th June ; the skull measured 10 inches 

 in length. A third example, 7 feet 4 inches long, 

 was discovered floating up the river on 27th 

 August. This was secured by some boatmen, who 

 created a scandal by exhibiting it upon the Marine 

 Parade on a wheel-barrow, the aroma in a day or 

 two not only drawing together all the flies in the 

 neighbourhood, but attracting the attention of a 

 large circle of interested spectators, including the 

 sanitary authorities, whereby its sojourn within 

 sight of its native element was considerably 

 shortened. Dead Porpoises were washed up on 

 the beach on 18th July, and 1st and 4th 

 November. 



A full-grown female example of the Lesser 

 Rorqual (Balcenoptera rostrata\ by losing its 

 bearings among the numerous sandbanks off 1 the 

 coast, eventually found its way into the harbour 

 on 8th June 1891, where it was immediately 

 attacked by a number of Gorleston lifeboatmen 



