THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vou. X.] OCTOBER, 1886. [No. 118. 
ANIMAL LIFE IN HIGH LATITUDES ON THE 
NORWAY COAST. 
By §. O. Riptey, M.A., F.L.S., and H. N. Riptey, M.A., F.LS., 
Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 
Tue following short notes, from observations made during an 
eight-days’ steamboat cruise from Throndhjem to the North 
Cape and back, may perhaps be interesting to those readers of 
‘The Zoologist’ who as yet are strangers to the beauties and 
wonders of this magnificent coast. The writers left Throndhjem 
on the 14th and returned to it on the 22nd July last, being 
favoured with beautifully clear and calm weather. They landed 
at five different places, spending in all about fifteen hours on 
land. 
VERTEBRATA. 
In accordance with what we had been led to expect, Cetaceans 
of considerable size were seen more than once on the voyage. 
Porpoises were common, and at several spots large specimens of 
the Killer, Orca gladiator, were seen slowly surging through the 
water, with a very different motion to that of the smaller and 
more active Cetacea. At one spot, Asta Fjord, among the 
Lofoden Islands, five or six Dolphins of a somewhat rare species, 
Delphinus acutus (the White-sided Dolphin), swam for a con- 
siderable distance alongside of the vessel, with which they easily 
kept pace, although it was going about twelve knots an hour. 
They went at a great rate through the water, hardly sinking 
out of sight, but swimming just below the surface, so that their 
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