THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Wow,» V..J FEBRUARY, 1881. [No. 50. 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN 
NEAR THE BELL ROCK.% 
By J. M. CampBe tt. 
ALTHOUGH it is to be expected that many of the rarer Cetacea 
frequent our coasts, the as yet imperfect knowledge of their habits, 
the difficulty of capture, and the nature of the element in which 
they live, all militate against the rapid accumulation of facts 
relating to their occurrence. 
The species which is the subject of this paper, although 
recorded as British so long ago as 1846, has not hitherto been 
added to our Scottish fauna. Mr. Alston, in his paper ‘On 
the Mammalia of Scotland,” read to this Society in April of last 
year, referring to this species, says:—‘‘ The White-beaked Dolphin 
is another species whose appearance in Scottish waters is to be 
expected, as it seems frequently to visit the Feeroes and the Kast 
coast of England (Cunningham, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876, p. 686), 
but as yet its actual occurrence does not seem to have been 
recorded.” 
This species was first figured and described by Brightwell, in 
the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ (vol. xvii., p. 21), 
in 1846, under the name of Delphinus tursio, Fabr., from a female 
taken by herring fishermen at Great Yarmouth in October, 1845, 
the skin and skeleton of which are now in the British Museum. 
There is, however, a skull of one which was killed at Hartlepool 
* Read to the Natural History Society of Glasgow, 30th Nov. 1880. 
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