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SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRLTLSH SEAS. 



and Denmark, also at Ostend, but little is known of its habits. A Dolphin of 

 this species was killed at Hartlepool in 1834, but not recognized at the time : 

 the skull is now in the Cambridge Museum. This species was, I believe, first 

 described as British by Mr. Brightwell, under the name of D. tursio, from a 

 specimen taken off Yarmouth, in 1S46. His paper, with a figure from a 

 drawing made by Miss Brightwell, will be found in the 'Ann. and Mag. of 

 Nat. Hist.,' first series, January, 1846, vol. xvii, p. 21. Another specimen was 



Fig. 29. W'HITE-iiEAKED DoLPHlN [Delplunus albcrostris, J. E. Gray). 



shot by Mr. H. M. Upcher, near Cromer, and will be found recorded by Dr. 

 Gray in the same Magazine, for April, 1866, vol. xvii., p. 312. A fourth, an 

 adult male, 9 feet long, was taken at the mouth of the Dee, in December, 

 1862 ; and a fifth on the south coast, in 187 1. 



In September, 1875, a young female was taken off Grimsby, and in 

 March, 1876, a young male was captured oft' Lowestoft. The first-named of 

 these latter formed the subject of a communication to the Zoological Society 

 of London, by Dr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, and the latter of a subsequent 



