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under and side views of the creature, were made while it 
was quite fresh by Mr. J. Chard, which are of considerable 
interest. As the finder would not part with the skin, it 
was only possible to secure the skeleton, which has been 
carefully mounted for the Museuin. 
Mr. Alfred O. Walker, of Colwyn Bay, writes, ‘‘Some 
years ago a school of Dolphins passed through Colwyn 
Bay. I did not see them, but my wite and others did, and 
described them as Porpoises, but said they spouted and 
sometimes threw themselves clean out of the water. The 
station master here saw them, and I remember, told me 
that he could see the herrings flying up out of the water in 
front of ‘their noses.’ This was, no doubt, the spouting. 
The above facts, according to Bell, are quite characteristic 
of the species, and as the observers, who informed me of 
them, did not know there was anything remarkable in 
‘porpoises spouting,’ 
Dolphin.” 
I think you may fairly book the 
Tursiops tursio, Faby. 
Into the northernmost of the two bays formed by the 
railway embankment connecting Holyhead with Anglesey, 
a small shoal of Cetaceans found their way on April 14th, 
1866, and proceeded so far that they got stranded near 
Valley, on the Anglesey shore. The workmen at the 
Valley foundry waded into the water and succeeded in 
killing and capturing fifteen or sixteen of the animals. I 
arrived on the spot, with Mr. F'. Archer, ten days after, 
just in time to make a few notes before the remains were 
illustration of Prof. Flower’s paper ‘‘On the External Characters of ‘Two 
Species of British Dolphins” (Delphinus delphis, Linn., and Delphinus tursio, 
Fabr.), no really adequate figure having been previously given in any 
Zoological publication. This specimen was caught in mackerel nets about 
twenty miles south of the Deadman Headland, Cornwall, March 13th, 1879, 
just a month after the stranding of our New Brighton specimen. 
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