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coasts. On September lo, 1881, a very young example was 

 landed alive by some fishermen at Yarmouth, but soon died ; 

 an account of it is given by Mr. Southwell in the Zoologist 

 for the same year, p. 420. In 1887 Mr. R. L. Patterson, in the 

 "Report" of the Belfast Natural History Club for that year (p. 

 114), mentions a specimen captured on the Irish coast, this 

 being apparently the first record of the occurrence of the 

 species in Ireland. The next example is one observed in the 

 Colne in 1889, of which an account is given by Mr. H. 

 Laver in the "Essex Naturalist " for that year (p. 169), Sir 

 W. Turner, in the " Proceedings " of the Physical Society of 

 Edinburgh, vol. x., p. 14, gives a notice of other Scotch speci- 

 mens, namely, one caught off Berwick in July, 1881, a female 

 captured at the same place in August, 1883, another female 

 taken at Sutherland in 1882, and an adult female and young 

 male taken together off Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, in July, 

 1888. Of the habits of both this and the following species, as 

 also of Risso's Dolphin, nothing definite is known. 



n. THE WHITE-SIDED DOLPHIN. LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS. 



Delphinus acutus, Gray, Spicil. Zool. vol. i. p. 2 (1828); Bell, 



British Quadrupeds, 2nd ed. p. 470 (1874). 

 Delphinus eschrichtii^ Schlegel, Abhandl. Geb. Zool. p. 23 



(1841). 



Delphi7ius leucopleurus^ Rasch, Nova Spec. Descript. (1843). 



Lagenorhynchus acutus, Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, 

 p. 35 (1846); Southwell, British Seals and Whales, p. 125 

 (1881) ; Flower, List Cetacea Brit. Mus. p. 23 {1885). 

 Characters. — Colour of upper-parts black, and of under-parts 



white, with a white stripe on the flanks continued anteriorly 



and posteriorly as a yellow or brownish band. Length of 



adult from 6 to 8 feet. 



Distribution.— This is a rare North Atlantic Dolphin, originally 



