504 Curious Markings on a Dolphin. 
little further, and surmise that while these impressions were 
left by the suckers, the patches of ‘ striae ’’ 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 (alread uoted), we seem to see there also 
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both the rounded impressions of suckers and the deeper longi- 
tudinal scores of hooks. MM. Richard 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 been 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 toa 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 
