2758 The Zoologist — September, 1871. 



May 24th, 1864. Mr. Flower considers thirty feet the maximum 

 length this species attains. 



Northern Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus, Linn.) — Sir 

 Thomas Browne says, "A Spermaceti whale of sixty-two feet long, 

 near Wells; another of the same kind twenty years before [Jmie, 

 1626] at Hunstanton; and not far off' eight or nine came ashore, 

 and two had young ones after they were forsaken by the water." 

 (Wilkin's edition, vol. iv. p. 326.) I can find no modern record of 

 the occurrence of this species on the Norfolk coast. In the Nor- 

 wich Museum are skulls of Delphinus Euphrosj'ne, Gray, and 

 D. Delphis, both probably obtained on the Norfolk coast, but I can 

 find no history of either recorded. Sir Thomas Browne says of 

 the latter species, " sometimes taken, but many confound it with 

 the porpoise." 



White-beaked Bottle-nose (Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Gray). — 

 Captured off" Yarmouth in 1845, described, with plate, in the 

 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' (vol. xvii. p. 21): skull 

 in Norwich Museum. 



Bottlehead (Hyperodon butzkopf, Lacep. H. rostratum. Gray). 

 — Under the head of " Delphinus bidens," Messrs. Paget say, " A 

 large one caught in a herring-net, November, 1816; a smaller spe- 

 cimen about twenty years before." On the 22nd of September, 1858, 

 one of these whales was stranded on the " Ferrier Sand," at the 

 entrance to the Ouse, which measured twenty-eight feet eight inches 

 in length. Mr. E. L. King also informs me that two others of this 

 species were taken on the 23rd of September, 1867, near the same 

 place; the larger one, a female, measured twenty-six feet eight 

 inches ; the smaller one eighteen feet six inches. 



The Killer or Grampus. — Sir Thomas Browne mentions one, 

 measuring about sixteen feet in length, taken at Yarmouth about 

 1658. In July, 1823, a specimen, weighing four cwt., and eleven 

 feet long, was found alive on Yarmouth beach (Paget). In 1830 

 one was taken in Lynn Harbour, which measured twenty-one feet 

 (Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v.); and Mr. T. E. Gunn, in the 

 * Zoologist' (S. S. 1927), records one being brought into Yarmouth 

 Harbour on the 25lh of June, 1867, which weighhed fourteen 

 cwt. 



Porpoise. — Common along the coast, sometimes coming up into 

 the harbours. 



