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in 1834, in the Museum of Cambridge University, the species not 
being recognised at the time. Dr. Gray, after an examination of 
Brightwell’s specimen, described it as a new species under the 
name Lagenorhynchus albirostris. On the 29th December, 1862, 
a full grown male was found stranded on Little Hilbre, one of two 
closely contiguous islands at the mouth of the Dee, Wales, and is 
described in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ for 
1863, p. 268, by Mr. T. J. Moore, of the Liverpool Museum, to 
whom it had been sent. In 1866 one was shot on the coast of 
Cromer, Norfolk, by Mr. H. M. Upcher, of Sherringham Hall, the 
skull being preserved in the British Museum. In 1867, according 
to Bell, a young male whose skeleton is in the University of 
Cambridge, was killed on the English coast. Dr. Murie, in his 
“Notes on the White-beaked Bottlenose” (Linn. Soc. Journ., 
vol. xi., p. 141), in 1870, describes the anatomy of a full-grown 
male captured a few years before on the south coast of England, 
part of the viscera of which is preserved in the College of Surgeons, 
and the skeleton is in the British Museum. In September, 1875, 
Dr. Cunningham obtained a young female caught off Great 
Grimsby, which he figured and described in the Zoological 
Society’s ‘Proceedings’ for 1876, the skeleton of which is in the 
Edinburgh University Museum. The same volume also contains 
a paper by Mr. Clark on a young male caught on the 26th March, 
1876, off Lowestoft. 
In ‘The Zoologist’ for 1878 Mr. A. G. More, of the Museum of 
Science and Art, Dublin, says in reference to this species :—‘* We 
have long had in the Museum here a coloured cast of a Dolphin 
captured some fifteen years ago in the vicinity of Dublin Bay, 
which lately, by comparing a coloured sketch taken from the fresh 
animal with the excellent figure given in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society’ for 1876 (p. 679, pl. 64), I was able to identify 
as D. albirostris, J. E. Gray.” The last recorded specimen was a 
young female captured by some Yarmouth fishermen on the 24th 
August, 1878, which Mr. T. Southwell, of Norwich, described in 
‘The Zoologist’ of that year. 
These, so far as I have been able to learn, are all the British 
specimens which have been recorded. On the Continent it has 
been taken at Ostend, Kiel, Bergen, Gullholmen, and Skanér. 
The individual which I now describe, a young male, was taken 
by some fishermen near the Bell Rock, on the 7th September last, 
