268 Mr. T. J. Moore on the Occurrence of 



C. B. Adams. It seems to be most nearly allied to Teinostoma, 

 with which my brother and myself have placed it in our 

 ' Genera.' 



Calceolina pusilla, C. B. Adams. 



Neritina pusilla, C. B. Adams, Conch. Contrib. p. 112. 

 Teinostoma anomalum, H. & A. Adams, ' Genera of Recent Mollusca,* 

 vol. i. p. 123. Teinost. pusillum. Append, p. 615. 



C. testa albida, subopaca, superficie rugulis incrementi confertissimis 

 striata ; sutura valde impressa ; anfractu ultimo depresso, magno, 

 ad peripheriam compresso. 



Hah. Tanabe, in shell- sand. 



XXX. — Notice of the Occurrence of a rare Cetacean (Lageno- 

 rhynchus albirostris, Gray) at the Mouth of the Dee. By 

 Thomas J. Moore. 



On the 29th of December last^ at daybreak, a fresh wind 

 blowing from W.S.W., and the tide being about quarter-ebb, a 

 large Cetacean was discovered stranded at Little Hilbre, one of 

 two closely contiguous islands at the mouth of the Dee. It was 

 observed by Mr. Barnett, Inspector of Buoys, who resides on the 

 larger island, and who had noticed others off the shore a few 

 days previously. I had urged Mr. Barnett, on the occurrence 

 of such creatures, to endeavour to secure examples for this Mu- 

 seum ; and he was, in consequence, kind enough immediately to 

 proceed to the mainland for a suitable conveyance, into which it 

 was carefully removed and brought to Birkenhead Ferry, and 

 thence across the Mersey to this building. The creature was 

 still living, spasmodically breathing at irregular intervals ; the 

 body was warm to the hand ; and tear-like moisture oozed from 

 its ej'^es as it lay quiescent in the cart. 



I was desirous of giving it a fresh chance of life, and my first 

 anxiety was to obtain a vessel large enough to form a bath for 

 it. This I succeeded, after some delay, in securing; but, to my 

 great mortification, the creature gave up the ghost (with con- 

 siderable violence, too) at the very moment when we were pre- 

 pared to remove him into it. It was then getting dark, and the 

 poor animal had thus lived about eight hours out of water. 



It was a male ; and upon endeavouring to make out the spe- 

 cies, I M'as agreeably surprised to find it approximate most 

 nearly to the description of the White-beaked Bottle-nose [La- 

 genorhynchus albirostris), as given in Dr. Gray^s ' Catalogue of 

 Cetacea in the British Museum,' p. 99, and in the ' Zoology of 

 the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror,' p. 35, the skull agreeing 

 well with the figures in the latter work, pi. 11. 



