420 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
On inspection I find it answers to the description of Delphinus tursio. It is 
a female about nine feet long, and has twenty-three teeth in the upper jaw 
and twenty-one in the lower; they are more pointed than usual, and 
I therefore judge it to be a young specimen. A few years since I saw a 
larger one, also a female, that was caught off Harwich. TI had an oppor- 
tunity of examining the stomach of this specimen; it was empty, except 
that it contained many otoliths of cod and haddock.—Hennry Laver 
(Colchester). 
WHITE-BEAKED DoxtpHin at YAarmMoutTH.—A very juvenile individual 
of this species, Delphinus albirostris, was landed at Yarmouth on the 10th 
September last; it was taken in the nets of a fishing-vessel about forty 
miles off the Norfolk coast. Its captors say that it died almost imme- 
diately upon striking the net, and that its mother which accompanied it 
swam round and round the boat for two hours, occasionally leaping quite 
out of the water in evident distress at the loss of its little one. In outline 
and coloration it very closely resembled Mr. Clark’s figure (Proc. Zool. Soc., 
1876, p. 679). Appearances indicated that at the time of its capture it had 
not long enjoyed a separate existence.—T. Sournwext (Norwich). 
SUPPOSED OCCURRENCE OF THE Sooty SHEARWATER OFF CoRK 
Harsour.—When in Dublin last July, my friend Mr. A. G. More showed 
me the specimen of the Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) that was shot 
off the Skelligs, on the Kerry coast, some years ago, and the occurrence of 
which he has recorded in the August number of ‘The Zoologist.’ While 
examining the bird, I was much struck with the sooty colour which extends 
all over the under parts, and it only then occurred to me that the two birds 
seen by me off Cork Harbour in August, 1849, and mentioned by Thompson 
in his ‘ Birds of Ireland’ (vol. iii. p. 409), were of this species, and not the 
Greater Shearwater, as I thought at the time, and mentioned to him. He 
refers to the occurrence as follows:—‘ On the 24th of August, 1849, 
Mr. R. Warren, jun., when hake-fishing on the Maide, about three miles 
off Cork Harbour, saw two of the Greater Shearwater, which he remarked 
were easily distinguished from the Puffinus anglorum (of which numbers 
were seen on the same day) by their larger size and darker colour.” These 
two birds appeared amongst the Common Shearwaters that were flying about 
amongst the fishing-boats at anchor, and frequently passed near our yacht, 
but not within shot, though the other Shearwaters came so close that I shut 
two fine specimens. When flying together the striking contrast of size and 
colour between the two species was very marked, the neat looking black and 
white plumage of P. anglorum contrasting favourably with the dark plumage 
of their dingy looking companions; and now when looking at an immature 
specimen of the Greater Shearwater (that I obtained some years ago on the 
