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was dark slaty grey on the back and sides ; lighter grey, but 

 never white, on the belly, the sides of the upper and lower 

 jaws, and the angle of the month. No teeth were visible, 

 bnt a groove was seen along the edge of the gum. This 

 whale was sold by the Custom House authorities for exhibi- 

 tion at the Birmingham Aquarium. 



A few days afterwards I heard from the officers of Customs 

 that a smaller whale of the same kind had been found dead 

 on September 24th, on the shore at Blackness, a few miles 

 lower down the Firth of Forth, and also sold. I traced it 

 with the view of procuring the skeleton, but found that the 

 bones had been broken up for manure. This animal was 

 said to be only 14^ feet long, and was without doubt the 

 young of the larger female stranded at Grangemouth on 

 Sej)tember 23d. 



In September 1883 two whales were stranded at South 

 Queensferry, and purchased by an oil merchant in Kirkcaldy. 

 From the description which he has given me they were 

 clearly two specimens of Hypcroodon, probably mother and 

 calf. Their bones were not preserved. In the beginning of 

 October of the same year a whale about 19 feet long was 

 stranded at Loch Eanza, in the island of Arran. Through the 

 kindness of Dr Neil Fullarton, of Brodick, I obtained the 

 skull and hyoid bone of this animal for the University 

 Museum. It was a young Hyperoodon rostratus, and Dr 

 Fullarton ascertained from one of the men who saw the 

 whale immediately after it was stranded, that it was a male, 

 as the penis protruded far back on the ventral surface. 



Early in November 1885 it was reported in the Scotsman 

 newspaper that a whale upwards of 20 feet long had been 

 stranded near Dunbar, not far from the mouth of the Firth of 

 of Forth. I requested my museum assistant, Mr James 

 Simpson, to go and see the animal, and on his return he told 

 me that it was a male Hypcroodon rostratus. As there were 

 several questions of interest connected with the anatomy of 

 this whale, regarding which additional information was 

 required, I bought it on 9th November, and had it conveyed 

 to the anatomical court in the New Buildings of the Univer- 

 sity, where I had the necessary conveniences for examining it. 



