276 Messrs. T. SoutlnvcjU and S. F. Harmer on a 



Wc arc informed tliat both mother and youn,:; are behig 

 stuffed and the skeleton of the former mounted for the lion. 

 Walter Eolhschild, for whom they were purchased, being- 

 intended for his museum. 



Eighteen examples of this species have been previously 

 recorded, all from the North Atlantic, but in only one previous 

 instance has it been met with in England, namely at Spurn 

 Toint in 1885*, and with five exceptions all have been males ; 

 nor has any perfect specimen in a fresh condition ever been 

 fully described, unless, indeed, the young female taken at 

 Atlantic City in March 1889 should prove an exception ; but 

 of this we have at present received no particidars. We were 

 therefore glad of an opportunity of examining so good a 

 specimen under comparatively favourable, although not alto- 

 gether satisfactory, circumstances, for the animal was unfor- 

 tunately lying in such a position that it was impossible to 

 obtain a photograph of it, and one side only could be seen. 

 We regretted this the more as, although several figures of 

 kSowerby's Whale have already been published, most of them 

 are not completely satisfactory in all respects, and we should 

 have been glad to have secured a good photograph ; but the 

 accompanying figure (PI. XV.) has been carefully recon- 

 structed from sketches and measurements made on the spot. 



Of the original published figures the best with which we 

 are acquainted is that of Reinhardtf, which is unfortunately 

 eoniained in a journal not easy of access to English readers ; 

 other figures more or less satisfactory have been given by 

 Sowerby J, Dumortier§, Andrews!!, &c., and a figure of a head 

 has been recently published by Sir William Turner % from a 

 photograph which differs in several noteworthy particulars 

 Irom the specimen examined by us, especially in the propor- 

 tions of the rostrum and lower jaw. The coloration of the 

 body also differs considerably in the various descriptions; but 

 to these we shall have to refer later on, and will proceed to 

 give the results of a careful examination of the specimen 

 under consideration. 



The two remarkable mandibular teeth so characteristic of 

 the adult male of this species were not visible in our specimen, 



* Southwell and Eagle Clarke, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1886, 

 p. 53. 



t Oversigt over d. Kong. Danske Vid. Selskabs, Copenhagen, 1880. 



t J. Sowerby, 'The British Miscellany," 1804-180G, vol. i. pi. i. 



§ B. C. Duniorlier, " M6m. sur le Dclphinorhynque microptcre," Noiiv. 

 Mem. de I'Acad. Roy. de Bruxelle^!, xii., 18:}9. 



II AV. Andrews, " On Ztpkiiis iSoirerhi/i,'' Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. xxiv. 

 1871, pi. XXV. 

 ^ Proc. Roy. I'liys. Soc. Ediulurgh, x., 1888-89. 



