ii6 SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRLTISH SEAS. 



with four times on tlie south coast of England, and about eight times in 

 France. In the 'Transactions' of the Zoological Society, for 1871, Professor 

 Flower gives an account of an adult female whicli was taken in a mackerel- 

 net, near the Edd}-stone Lighthouse, on 28th February, 1870, and which 

 eventually was sent up to London. About a month later, a second specimen 

 was received in London, the precise locality of which was not known, but it 

 was probably from somewhere in the Channel. This was also a female, but a 

 very young animal, and as the adult female first taken had recently given 

 birth to a }-oung one, it is quite possible that it may have belonged to her. 



Fig. 25. Risso's Dolphin {Gramt<us griscus, G. Cuv.) 



On the 26th July, a male of the same species was captured alive at Sidle- 

 sham, near Chichester, and sent to the Brighton Aquarium, where it lived 

 for a few hours only. 



Risso's Dolphin varies very considerably in its colouration. The Sidle- 

 sham specimen was bluish-black above, and dirty white beneath ; in the adult 

 female described by Professor Flower (from whose illustration our figure is, 

 with his permission, copied), " the head and the whole of the body anterior to 



