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the Firth. Several of the animals captured on this occasion 

 were secured for scientific purposes, with the result that 

 our knowledge of the organisation of the species was greatly 

 increased (see, for instance, Sir William Turner's paper in 

 the "Journal of Anatomy and Physiology," vol. ii., and 

 Dr Murie's treatise in the " Transactions " of the Zoological 

 Society of London, vol. viii.). The skeletons of two of the 

 animals are preserved in Edinburgh one in the Museum 

 of Science and Art, the other in the Anatomical Museum 

 of the University. 



The " Proceedings " of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 vol. vii., p. 509, contains a record by Dr Hardy of an example 

 14 feet long, which came ashore in October 1875 at Burn- 

 mouth, near Berwick; and on 3rd August last (1891) two 

 small whales, which as reported in the " Scotsman " were 

 stranded at St Margaret's Hope, near North Queensferry, 

 also belonged to this species, as I am informed by Mr James 

 Simpson, assistant to Sir William Turner. 



WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN. 



LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRIS Gray. 



Up to the date of the publication of Alston's list of 

 Scottish Mammalia, no authentic instance of the occurrence 

 of the White-beaked Dolphin in the Scottish seas was known. 

 Since then several have been taken on different parts of our 

 coasts, both east and west. Although it has not, as yet, been 

 identified in the waters of the Forth, the fact that it has 

 been captured off the mouth of the Tay on the one hand, and 

 off the Tweed on the other, renders it highly probable that a 

 few occasionally visit the seaward portion of the Forth also, 



