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  MAMMALIA. 
  

  

  White-beaked 
  Dolphin 
  (Lagenorhynchus 
  albirostris) 
  off 
  Aberdeen. 
  

   A 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  four 
  feet 
  long, 
  was 
  caught 
  sixteen 
  miles 
  off 
  

   Buchanness, 
  July 
  23rd, 
  1904, 
  and 
  brought 
  to 
  Aberdeen 
  Fish 
  Market. 
  

   On 
  Aug. 
  18th 
  following 
  another 
  was 
  caught 
  by 
  trawl, 
  from 
  thirty 
  to 
  

   forty 
  miles 
  off 
  Aberdeen. 
  It 
  measured, 
  from 
  beak 
  straight 
  to 
  centre 
  of 
  

   tail, 
  four 
  feet, 
  the 
  breadth 
  of 
  tail 
  being 
  eleven 
  inches. 
  Nicolson,in 
  his 
  

   ' 
  Manual,' 
  p. 
  569, 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  Dolphins 
  which 
  are 
  totally 
  hairless 
  when 
  

   adult 
  exhibit 
  tufts 
  of 
  hair 
  on 
  the 
  muzzle 
  in 
  the 
  foetal 
  state." 
  This 
  one, 
  

   however, 
  still 
  retained 
  a 
  portion 
  of 
  this 
  foetal 
  appendage, 
  there 
  being 
  

   some 
  hairs 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  lip, 
  each 
  hair 
  being 
  three- 
  

   quarters 
  of 
  au 
  inch 
  long, 
  thus 
  showing 
  that 
  the 
  moustache 
  continues 
  

   for 
  some 
  time 
  after 
  birth 
  ; 
  and, 
  if 
  we 
  may 
  judge 
  from 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  

   the 
  teeth, 
  none 
  of 
  which 
  had 
  cut 
  the 
  gums, 
  although 
  each 
  was 
  distinctly 
  

   apparent, 
  the 
  conclusion 
  must 
  be 
  arrived 
  at 
  that 
  the 
  creature 
  was 
  still 
  

   solely 
  dependent 
  upon 
  its 
  mother 
  for 
  support. 
  Altogether 
  some 
  four- 
  

   teen 
  or 
  fifteen 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  recorded 
  for 
  the 
  

   British 
  and 
  Irish 
  seas. 
  In 
  the 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  ' 
  of 
  the 
  Boyal 
  Physical 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Edinburgh, 
  vol. 
  x. 
  p. 
  14, 
  Sir 
  W. 
  Turner 
  gives 
  a 
  good 
  de- 
  

   scription 
  of 
  two 
  that 
  were 
  caught 
  off 
  Stonehaven 
  in 
  1888 
  — 
  one 
  (a 
  

   female) 
  eight 
  feet 
  six 
  inches 
  long, 
  and 
  a 
  young 
  one, 
  three 
  feet 
  eleven 
  

   inches. 
  He 
  also 
  gives 
  a 
  figure 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  young 
  one, 
  showing 
  

   the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  lip, 
  but 
  he 
  says 
  nothing 
  regarding 
  

   the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  teeth. 
  — 
  Geo. 
  Sim 
  (Castle 
  Street, 
  Aberdeen). 
  

  

  AVES. 
  

  

  Fire-crested 
  Wren 
  (Regulus 
  ignicapillus) 
  in 
  Lancashire 
  : 
  a 
  Cor- 
  

   rection. 
  — 
  With 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Collins, 
  Jun. 
  (Zool. 
  

   1903, 
  p. 
  455), 
  of 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  above-named 
  species 
  

   near 
  Southport, 
  may 
  I 
  be 
  permitted 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  I 
  made 
  a 
  critical 
  

   examination 
  of 
  the 
  specimen 
  in 
  question 
  while 
  it 
  was 
  temporarily 
  

   placed 
  in 
  the 
  Warrington 
  Museum, 
  and 
  found 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  brightly- 
  

   marked 
  male 
  of 
  the 
  Common 
  Goldcrest 
  (Regulus 
  cristatus, 
  K. 
  L. 
  Koch). 
  

  

  