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physalis the Pagets refer to this species as having ‘ several 
times been taken in the Herring-nets.” An example was stranded 
on Winterton beach, Jan. 12th, 1857, and was killed by the 
fishermen, who, in conjunction with two or three townspeople, 
exhibited about twenty tons of the carcase on the Church Plain, 
Yarmouth. The skull is preserved in the Museum of the College 
of Surgeons. Another at Happisburgh, March Ist, 1875. 
Lesser Rorquat (B. rostrata). R.—A full-grown example, 
thirty feet in length, found its way into Yarmouth harbour 
on June 8th,1891. It was attacked by several boats’ crews, and, 
after an exciting hunt, during which the animal received severe 
wounds, mostly self-inflicted, it succumbed. It was drawn into 
the lifeboat shed and exhibited, afterwards being preserved and 
taken on tour to various parts of the country. On Dee. 8th, 
1896, an adult dead specimen was stranded on Gorleston beach, 
where it became very speedily a most unwelcome and unsavoury 
object, and had to be buried in sections. 
Sperm Wua.e (Physeter macrocephalus). A.—The basal por- 
tion of the skull of a Sperm Whale stands in the north-west 
doorway of St. Nicholas Church. It was long known as the 
* Devil’s Seat.” ‘In the churchwardens’ accounts for 1606 
there is a charge of 8s. for painting this chair, which clearly 
proves its antiquity.” * There remains little doubt, although the 
date is uncertain, that this example was killed in the latter part 
of the sixteenth century. 
BEAKED oR BoTTLE-HEAD WHALE (Hyperoddon rostratum). 
R.—As Delphinus bidens the Pagets refer to ‘‘ a large one caught 
in a Herring-net, November, 1816. A smaller specimen about 
twenty years before.” 
Grampus (Orca gladiator). R.R.—The Pagets refer to occur- 
rences as follow:—‘ A specimen weighing 4 cwt. and 11 ft. long 
found alive on the beach, July 21st, 1823; another, 16 ft. long, 
caught about 1694,} according to Sir Thomas Browne.” Another 
brought into Yarmouth June 25th, 1867; weight 14 cwt. An 
example, 7 ft. 6 in. long, taken into Lowestoft harbour on Nov. 
* Southwell, ‘Seals and Whales of the British Seas,’ p. 87. 
+ As Sir T. Browne wrote apparently in the year 1662, and says ‘“‘ four 
years ago,” this capture would take place 1658; in Wilkins’s edit. iii. 
pp. 825 and 326, second paragraph. 
