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imperfect, is now in the Museum of the University of 

 Oxford. Another male, about fifteen feet long, was 

 stranded in March 1864, in Brandon Bay, County Kerry, 

 and photographs of its head were taken by Dr. Busteed, 

 which have been engraved by Mr. W. Andrews, in vol. 

 XXIV. of the " Transactions of the Royal Irish Aca- 

 demy ;" its skull is now in the Museum of the Royal 

 Society of Dublin. Another specimen, seventeen feet in 

 length, was taken in the same place in May 1870, the skull 

 and some of the bones of which are now at Dublin ; and Dr. 

 Gray mentions, in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History >f for August 1872, that he has been informed by 

 Mr. Andrews of the occurrence of a third individual on 

 the west coast of Ireland, the complete skeleton of which 

 has been received at the Dublin Museum. In the 

 Museum of Science and Art at Edinburgh there is a 

 skull of this animal of which the history is unknown, but 

 Prof. Turner, who has minutely described it in vol. 

 XXVI. of the " Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh," thinks that it was probably formerly in the 

 University Museum,, and adds, " It is not unlikely that 

 the animal had been captured somewhere on the Scottish 

 coast, and that the skull had been presented to the late 

 Prof. Jamieson." 



On the continent very few specimens of Sowerby's 

 Whale have been recorded. Prof. Flower, in his paper 

 " On the Ziphioid Whales," in vol. VIII. of the Zoological 

 Society's Transactions, enumerated the following : A 

 female was taken at Havre in September 1825, and re- 

 ceived the name of Delphinorhynchus micropterus from 

 Cuvier ; its skull is now in the Paris Museum. Another 

 female was stranded at Calvados in the same year; the 

 skull and some of the bones are preserved in the Museum 

 of Caen. The Museum of Brussels contains the com- 



