300 Notes on the Slugs and Land Shells of Iceland. 



var. hypnicola Mabille. 

 E. Islandia borealis fide clar Servain (Westerlund). 



var. trochoidalis Roffiaen. 

 W. i specimen from Isafjordur, 1913 (H.S.). 



Remarks : Helicogona arbustorum is a very common species 

 in the East ; it is probably introduced at Isafjordur, as it was 

 only found in a garden near Stakkanes, and there in single 

 specimens. Mohr says, ' it lives often on flanks of hills and 

 heights.' 



( To be continued) . 



BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN (TURSIOPS TURSIO) 

 CAUGHT OFF WALNEY ISLAND. 



H. B. BOOTH, M.B.O.U., F.Z.S. 



Spending a few days' holiday with my family at Morecambe 

 in mid-August, I was naturally attracted by the advertisement : 

 ' A Large Whale on View, caught by Morecambe fishermen,' 

 etc. On seeing the enclosure, bounded on one of its longest 

 sides by an old fishing boat, the other three sides made up 

 with all kinds of odds and ends, I was naturally quite prepared 

 to see nothing more than a common Porpoise. But I was 

 pleased to find the exhibit to be a Bottle-nosed Dolphin ; a 

 species, I believe, of somewhat rare occurrence on the English 

 coasts. It measured 10 feet 10 inches in a straight line, and 

 was almost exactly the length of the dray upon which it was 

 exhibited. Possibly it may have shrank a few inches, as it 

 was exposed to the full rays of the sun and to the wind. I 

 mention this because when I saw it again a few days later 

 it was quite three inches shorter. From what information 

 I gathered it was seen in a dazed or stunned condition five 

 miles west of the south point of Walney Island on August 8th. 

 The fishermen managed to get a rope round the narrowest 

 part of its body inside the flukes, and towed it in to Heysham 

 Harbour. Naturally this procedure forced its head under 

 the water, and soon deprived it of what little life it had left, 

 by drowning. Before being exhibited it had been disem- 

 bowelled and treated with some formaline concoction. This, 

 together with the effect of the sun and the weather, had some- 

 what dulled its appearance. When first caught I was informed 

 it was blue-black, on the upper parts, shading through a beau- 

 tiful grey on the sides to a shining silvery white below. The 

 white however, did not extend so far up as to include the gape 

 of the mouth, and to form a narrow streak above the upper 

 lip, as I have seen it figured. From what I could learn, it 

 was a female. The lower jaws protruded by about two inches 



Naturalist, 



