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all dispersed. All the heads and most of the bodies had 
already been purchased for the Cambridge and London 
museums, but I managed to secure for the Liverpool 
museum one of the decapitated bodies and the head to 
match. I took the dimensions, &c., of several of the skulls 
and skeletons, also of a skin which was being prepared for 
stuffing by two of the foundry men, and these notes I give 
below. So far as.I could determine on the spot, with 
Dr. Gray’s British Museum Catalogue of Seals and 
Whales, the specimens seemed to belong to the species 
given above, the Bottle-nosed Dolphin,* which is also the 
opinion arrived at by Mr. J. W. Clark, of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, from an examination of the specimens which 
were conveyed there, and by Mr. EK. Gerrard, on examining 
those which went to London. 
Dimensions :— 
No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | No. 4. | No. 5. | No. 6. 
Et, In: Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In. 
engthvof body.| 9° 2°18 (7-8 ON Os205 emer fet 
Length of head.| 110) 1 10) 1 10) 1 10) sh ae 
Total length.) 11 0 )10 5 | 9 10 10° 10) ) 1Opes 






3 14 ZA 2a 
5 2 

Pt PA ih 21 20 22 23 21 
Teeth eee een essen Orin Gil 20 20 Om) = ai 
252 19 1s 
All much Virst from Very old jand several 
worn. the snout and many | gone. 
very small lost, but 
and nearly the first 
embedded and last 
in the of each 
gum. : series re- 
maining. 







Two of the largest carcases lay beheaded on the shore. 
Putting these and their heads together the total length of 
the one was eleven feet six inches, and of the other eleven 
feet eight inches, the tail of the latter being two feet six 
inches across from tip to tip. All the above were males ; 
* Delphinus tursio, Bell’s ‘‘ Brit. Quad.,” ed. 2, p. 467; Tursio truncatus, 
Gray’s ‘‘Catal.,” p. 358; ZTurstops tursio, Flower’s “‘ List,” p. 26. 
