42 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



In the meantime I may say that the female was of an uniform 

 glossy black colour, with the exception of the anterior edges of 

 the flukes of the tail, and the jaws, which were grey of various 

 shades — in places almost white, and the body was spotted and 

 blotched with white or pale grey in a very curious manner. The 

 fishermen told us that, when quite fresh out of the water, there 

 was a bluish shade pervading the whole. The young animal was 

 black above and reddish on the sides and lower parts, probably 

 owing to the effusion of blood into the skin, which would 

 doubtless otherwise have been white. The total length of the 

 old female, measured in a straight line to the centre of the tail, 

 was 16 ft. 2 in., and that of the young one 5 ft. 2 in. ; across the 

 flukes of the tail the adult measured 3 ft. 8 in. 



The present is the nineteenth known example of this 

 remarkable animal, all of which have been met with in the 

 North Atlantic during the present century; but, with the excep- 

 tion of one taken in 1889 at Atlantic City, which came into the 

 possession of the United States National Museum at Washington, 

 and of which no account has, I believe, at present been published, 

 in no other instance has an example in perfect condition come 

 under the notice of a cetologist. Individuals or their remains 

 have been found in Scotland and Ireland, but the only previous 

 English example was met with at the mouth of the Humber in 

 September, 1885 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1886, p. 53). 



ANIMAL LIFE IN EAST GREENLAND. 

 By Colonel H. W. Feilden, C.M.Z.S. 



It is extremely interesting to note how, year by year, our 

 knowledge of the distribution of animal life around the great 

 ice-clad island-continent of Greenland is developing. In * The 

 Zoologist' for 1890 (p. 178), I drew attention to the finding of 

 Musk-oxen in considerable numbers on Clavering Island in 

 74° 20' N., by Captain Kniidsen, of the Norwegian sealer 

 * Heckla.' In the * Geographical Journal' for January, 1893, 

 Lieutenant Ryder, of the Danish Navy, gives an interesting 

 summary of his East Greenland Expedition, 1891-92, and at 

 page 45 he records, "Animal life is rich, especially in Jameson's 

 Land, where Reindeer are seen in wonderful numbers. They 



