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Curious Markings on a Dolphin. 



little further, and surmise that while these impressions were 

 left by the suckers, the patches of ^'striaj" were produced by 

 tentacular hooks — in short, that the cuttlefish which made 

 both was a giant Onychoteuthis. And on closer inspection of 

 Flower's figure (already quoted), we seem to see there also 



both the rounded impressions of suckers and the deeper longi- 

 tudinal scores of hooks. MM. Kichard and Neuville, in the 

 case of the grampus they describe, are inclined to ascribe both 

 sets of markings to the action of suckers, and suppose them 

 to have betMi made by an Architeuthis. 



I am inclined to ascribe to a similar origin certain markings 

 that various other authors have described without venturing 

 to attribute them to a definite cause. Prof. Van Bambeke, 

 in a paper on the hair-follicles of the upper jaw in Tursiops 

 (Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. 1888), has quoted certain of these 



