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Plate XIV. 



Fiff. 4. Diagram of a transverse section passing along a radial canal on 



the right hand side but not on the left. 

 Fiff. 5. A radial section cut a little to one side of the opening of a radial 



canal into the ring-canal, X 60. 

 .Fiff. 6. A portion of a tentacle, showing the arrangement of thread-cells. 

 Fiff. 7. A tangential section through two adjacent marginal sense-organs. 

 Fiff. 8. A marginal body seen in longitudinal optical section. 



c.c. Circular canal. ms. Mesogloea. 



ect. Ectoderm. m.v. Muscles of velum. 



e.l. Eudoderm lamella. R. Radial tentacle. 



end. Endoderm. r.c. Radial canal. 



gem. Medusa buds. s. Marginal sense-organ. 



IR. Interradial tentacle. te. Tentacle. 



7)171. Manubrium. v. Velum. 



XLVI. — Notes on a Specimen of Bowerhy's T'FAa/e(Mesoplodon 

 bidens*) , stranded on the Norfolk Coast. By T. SOUTHWELL, 

 F.Z.S., and Sidney F. Harmer, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Plate XV.] 



On the 19th December, 1892, we received intimation that a 

 " large fish " accompanied by a young one had come ashore 

 on tlie previous day at Overstrand, near Cromer, and on the 

 following day we visited Overstrand together with the expec- 

 tation of seeing one of the commoner species of Cetacea, but 

 were agreeably surprised to find that the animal which had 

 been stranded was a fine adult female specimen, 16 feet 

 2 inches in length, of Sowerby's Whale. It had been disco- 

 vered on the morning of the 18th December left in shallow 

 water by the receding tide, still alive but feeble, and, after 

 being anchored to the shore for security, had been placed on 

 a trolly and carried to the top of the cliff; it died, however, 

 before it was taken from the water. Previously to our arrival 

 on the scene it had been eviscerated, and was lying in a shed 

 on the top of the cliflf, a foetus, 5 feet 2 inches long, having 

 been extracted from it. 



* Professor Sir W. Turner, in a recent paper on its occurrence in the 

 Firth of Forth, has adopted the generic name Microptero7i for this animal, 

 as proposed by A. Wagner in 1846, and used byEschrichtand G. Cuvier; 

 but for the reasons assigned by Professor Sir W. Flower, in a footnote to 

 his paper on the "Recent Ziphioid Whales'' (Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 208), we 

 prefer to retain the more familiar term Maoplodon, as a])plied by M. P. 

 Gervais iu 1850. 



