Occurrence of Soioerhy's Whale in the Firth of Forth. 



the concavity forwards. It was not quite symmetrical, the 

 right half of the crescent being a little anterior to the left, 

 and more sharply curved forwards. Immediately behind the 

 blowhole, the contour of the head was elevated above the 

 plane of the blowhole for 2 inches, and then passed almost 

 horizontally backwards. 



Profile of head of Sowerby's whale, from a photograph by my son, Arthur 

 Logan Turner. The black spot a little behind the eye is the auditory meatus. 



Immediately in front of the blowhole the beak was raised 

 as a convex eminence, which, when looked at from above 

 was seen to be not quite symmetrical, but projected more to 

 the right side of the mesial plane than to the left. In front of 

 this eminence the beak sloped downwards and forwards with 

 a gentle curve almost as far as the plane of the two mandi- 

 bular teeth, beyond which it extended nearly in a straight line 

 to the tip of the upper jaw. The side of the upper lip was 

 slightly indented by the mandibular tooth, and the distance 

 from this indentation to the tip of the beak was 9f inches. 

 In front of the mandibular tootli, the upper border of the 

 mandible was almost straight, as was also the mouth slit, 

 but behind it both the mouth slit and the mandible were 

 curved with the convexity upwards. From the angle of the 

 mouth a furrow in the integument passed backwards, in line 

 with the angle, for 5 inches on the surface of the head. It 

 was at first deep, but gradually became shallower until it 



