296 Bottle-nosed Whale. By Dr Hardy. 



the rocks near the apex are gray lichened ; the west side 

 is daily washed by the tide. From early experience of rock 

 climhiiig here, I know that it is easier to reach the top of 

 it than, from its bulging character and the absence of safe 

 foothold, to regain the bottom. Bagarney's Wells occur as 

 a place-name on an old boundary of Coldingham Common, 

 dated 1561, on the high ground of Dowlaw in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Ailie may have been a witch, as a somewhat 

 adjacent spot was called "The Carlinge Branary." 



The Bottle-head or Beaked Whale is not yet represented 

 in the Fauna of Northumberland, but Dr Dennis Embleton 

 concluded that it was likely to have occurred on the coast. 

 I refer to a "Catalogue of the Mammalia of Northumberland 

 and Durham " — by Henry T. Mennell, F.L.S., and Vincent 

 E. Perkins — in the Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club, Vol. vi., Part ii., 1864, where, under the head 

 of Hyperoodon Butzlopff, Lacep., the authors state: — "We 

 are not able to record any recent instance of the capture of 

 this species on our coast, and can therefore only place it in 

 our Catalogue on the ground of the discovery of a skeleton 

 in the bed of the Tyne near Newcastle. For a full account 

 of these remains, and of the arguments in favour of the 

 whale (when in life) having wandered to the spot, where it 

 was found, to die there, we must refer our readers to a very 

 interesting paper by Dr Embleton in our Transactions, Vol. 

 IV., p. 50." (p. 156.) Dr Embleton has long been a 

 distiuguished member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. 



Another Rare Cetacean, Delphinus allirostris. 



In the report of the Club meetings for 1881, some members 

 of the Club, on 31st August, when at Kelso, paid a visit 

 to Mr Andrew Brotherston's shop to see, as was stated, "the 

 cranium of Delphinus Tursio, from a specimen captured off 

 Berwick." Sir William Turner says that this and another 

 skull of a young female, of which Mr B. had stuffed the 

 skin for Berwick Museum in 1883, belonged to the White- 

 beaked Dolphin, Delphinus {Lagenorhynchus) allirostris. — Proc. 

 Royal Physical Society, 1888, p. 15. Edinburgh, 1889. 



Mr George Bolam has informed me that, a month or two 

 ago, he presented to the Newcastle Museum a good skull of 

 this Dolphin, picked up on the sea-shore at Newton-by-the-Sea. 



