Occurrence of the Bottle-Nosed or Beaked Whale. 27 



and a young one near the same place; a female taken at 

 Weston-super-Mare, and measured by Mr Crotch ; ^ an adult 

 female and a young one in October 1860 at Whitstable in 

 Kent, the skeleton of the adult and a part of that of the 

 young animal are in the British Museum ; ^ an adult female 

 in the Menai Strait in September 1877;^ the skull of an 

 adult male recorded by Mr Thomas Southwell as brought up 

 in a trawl in March 1881 on the Great Fisher Bank, and 

 now in the Norwich Museum.* 



M. Gervais, in the chapter on Hyperoodon m the Osteo- 

 (jrajohie des CStaces, by M. van Beneden and himself, has 

 given a record of a number of specimens of this whale cap- 

 tured on the coasts of France, Belgium, and Holland. The 

 estuaries of the Seine and the Scheldt have frequently been 

 resorted to by these cetaceans in the summer and autumn 

 seasons, and the museum at Caen in ]N"ormandy contained 

 at one time three crania and also an entire skeleton of this 

 animal. One of these skulls is probably that of the female 

 caught at Honfieur with its young one in September 1788, 

 which has been already referred to as described by M. Baussard. 

 A specimen taken at Zandvoort, on the Dutch coast on 24th 

 July 1846, was dissected by Vrolik, and formed the subject 

 of the most complete account of the anatomy of this animal 

 which has yet been published.^ 



Hyperoodon rostratus has also been captured on the coasts 

 of Scandinavia, and specimens are referred to in the ceto- 

 logical writings of Pontoppidan, Eschricht, Nilsson, Lilljeborg, 

 and Malm. 



The first specimen of Hyperoodon to be recognised as 

 having an Irish habitat was stranded at Killiney, near 

 Dublin, in September (1824 ?), and was described by Dr A. 



1 J. E. Gray on Hyperoodon in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, vol. xxviii., p. 422 ; 

 and Catalogue of Seals and Whales, p. 334. 



2 Rev. G. Beardsworth in Proc. Zool. Soc, 13tli November 1860, vol. 

 xxviii., p. 373. 



^ Zoologist, 3rd series, 1878, vol. ii., p. 13. 



4 Zoologist, 3rd series, 1881, vol. v., p. 258. I am indebted to Mr South- 

 well for some of the above references. 



^ Natuurk. Verhandel. van de Hollandsche Maatsch. der Wetensch. te 

 Haarlem, 1848. 



