MAMMALS 



Hunstanton Hall, others in 1646, and a very 

 ancient skull of one of these Cetaceans is used 

 as a chair in Yarmouth Church, but I know 

 of no modern instance of its having been met 

 with here. 



39. Bottle-nose Whale. Hyperoodon rostratus, 

 Chemnitz. 



The bottle-nose whale has occurred several 

 times on the Norfolk coast, generally the old 

 female accompanied by its young coming 

 southward in the autumn. The adult male 

 has not been met with here. 



40. Sowerby's Whale 

 M. P. Gervais. 



Mesoplodon hidens. 



A female, from which a full-grown foetus 

 was taken, was captured in the surf at Over- 

 strand near Cromer, on the 18th December, 

 1892, vide Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., April, 

 1893. 



41. Narwhal. Monodon monoceros, Linn. 



In Purchas his Pi/grimes, and most fully 

 related in the 2nd edit. (Lond. fo. 1 61 4) 

 p. 739, is an interesting account of the find- 

 ing of one of these animals on the Norfolk 

 coast so long ago as the year 1588. I know 

 of no modern instance. 



42. Grampus or Killer. Ona gladiator, 



Lacepede. 

 In Mackerell's History of Lynn 'twelve 

 grampuses' are said to have come ashore 

 there in 1636, another in 1680. Sir Thomas 

 Browne (Wilkin's edit., iii. p. 325) mentions 

 one at Yarmouth, about 1658, and from that 

 time to the present they have been met with 

 in many instances. Two very juvenile ex- 

 amples were brought into Yarmouth on 

 November 13th and 19th respectively, 1894 ; 

 they were so nearly of an age as to render it 

 probable that they were both the offspring of 

 the same parent. 



43. Pilot Whale. Glohicephalus melas, Traill. 

 A female was stranded at Mundesley on 



29th January, 1879. 



44. Porpoise. Phocana communis, F. Cuv. 

 Common. 



45. White-beaked Dolphin. Delphinus al- 



hirostris, J. E. Gray. 

 The white-beaked dolphin is of frequent 

 occurrence on the Norfolk coast in the spring 

 on its journey northward, and again in the 

 autumn on its return south. I have met 

 with a very young individual in the month of 

 September and a female containing a foetus in 

 June. 



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