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fewer, till, in 1830, they cease altogether. I extract a few of these entries 
as specimens : the first is (1788) ‘4 Foxes and a Foulmart, 4s. 2d.” (1789), 
“4 Foulmarts, 8d. Paid for a Foxes head, 1s. For a Bever do. 2d.” 
For Bever I should imagine we must read Otter, since the parish is near 
the Wharfe, and an Otter head is entered further on. Payments for 
Foxes and Foulmarts occur annually till 1798, when 2 Foulmarts cost 
4d. each; 8 Foxes, 3s.; 1 Otter, 1s.; total, 4s. 8d. Foulmarts must 
have grown scarcer, for, in 1795, the price was raised from 2d. to 4d., and 
an Otter (sc. Bever) from 2d. to 1s. In 1816 we find 7 Fox heads entered ; 
in 1829 is the last entry, “2 Foxes heads, 2s.” There are some other 
curious entries, viz., in 1792, “To turning Dogs out of church, £1”; and, 
in 1819, “ Pd. G. Gill, dog-whipping, £1."—C. Funterron Surry (Bolton 
Percy, Yorkshire). 
On a Skutt oF HyperoopoN LATIFRONS (ROSTRATUS?) FROM THE 
Norra Sva.—A very perfect skull of this Whale (minus the lower 
mandible) was dredged up by the smack ‘ Gladiator’ on the Great Fisher 
Bank on the 15th March, 1881, from a depth of thirty-six fathoms, and 
landed at Grimsby, whence it was sent as a present toa gentleman residing 
in Norwich, who exhibited it at the National Fisheries Exhibition, recently 
held in that city, and afterwards presented it to the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum, where it has been added to the interesting collection of Cetacean 
remains already possessed by that institution. The skullin question, which, 
as beforesaid, is unfortunately without the lower mandible, although com- 
pletely divested of all the integuments, is still so fresh as to be very full of 
oil, although the presence of colonies of marine animals (Crustacea, &c.), 
in the cavities shows that it has long been stationary at the bottom of the 
sea. The following are the principal measurements :—Total length of 
skull, 69 inches; height of occipital portion, measured in a straight line 
from the ground, 26 inches; height of maxillary crests, measured in the 
same way, 33 inches; breadth of the maxillary crests in front—left, 
8% inches; right, 8} inches. This skull corresponds well with Gray’s 
figure in the Zoology of the ‘Erebus’ and‘ Terror.’ The occipital portion 
appears insignificant in comparison with the maxillary crests, which will be 
seen, from the foregoing measurements, to exceed it in height by seven 
inches ; they are very much thickened and reflexed internally, presenting a 
broad and very much roughened front; the inner surfaces, where the 
maxillary bones approach each other, are very irregular, the inequalities 
corresponding in the two crests, so that the space left between them is about 
sufficient to permit the hand to be introduced. Very little is known of the 
animal to which this skull belongs; from its cranial peculiarities, it has 
been described as distinct from Hyperocdon rostratus, the Common Beaked 
Whale, in which the maxillary crests do not exceed in height the occipital 
