Notes on the White-beaked Dolphin. 



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specimen an account of which has been published. Since that 

 time several additional specimens taken on or off the coast of 

 Scotland have come into my pos.session, and are now in the 

 Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. In 

 1881 I obtained from Mr Brotherston of Kelso the skull of 

 another adult, which had been caught off Berwick in July 

 of that year;^ and in 1883 the same naturalist forwarded to 

 me the skull of a young female, caught off Berwick in the 

 month of August, the skin of which he had stuffed for the 

 museum of that town. In 1885 the Eev. Dr Joass presented 

 to me, for the University Museum, the skull of an adult 

 female, taken so far north as the coast of Sutherland. Dr 

 Joass writes to me that the animal was found beached on the 

 sands of Kintradwell, seven miles east from Golspie, in May 

 1882. It contained a calf 



In July 1 888 I purchased from one of the Edinburgh fish- 

 mongers an adult female and a young male, which had been 

 taken together off Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. The female 

 was evidently the mother of the younger specimen, which 

 was a suckling, for milk could easily be pressed out of her 

 nipples. The relative size of the two can be seen from the 

 following table of measurements : — 



Dimensions of Deliohinus albirostris. 



Extreme length in a straight line; 



Circumference of body in front of dorsal tin, 



Width across tail, 



From mesial notch of tail to anus, 



Length of anterior border of flipper, 



From root of flipper to angle of mouth. 



Length of mouth slit, 



From angle of mouth to eye, 



Height of dorsal fin, 



From blow-hole to tip of beak, . 



From tip of beak to anterior edge of dorsal fln. 



Transverse diameter of blow-hole. 



Eye to auditory meatus. 



From penis to umbilicus. 



1 See " Land and Water," 16th July 1881, where it is incorrectly named 

 Delphinus turaio. 



