MAMMALS. 



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Dr. Buchanan White speaks of it as still common on the Tay tidal 

 reaches, and of a young one preserved in the Perth Museum — pre- 

 sumably obtained within the area of Tay or its immediate coast-line. 



Whales Generally. 



Works of reference : — 



ISm—The Greenland Whale. (Ray Society.) Eschricht and Reinhardt. 

 1876 — Bell's British Quadrupeds, latest edition. 



Taylor, William. Papers in the Scot. Nat. and Annals Scot. Nat. Hist. 

 1882-5 — Turner, Prof. Papers in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology. 



1881 — Southwell, Thos. Seals and Whales of the British Seas. 

 1880-3— Southwell, Thos. "On Occurrences of Seals and Whales on the East 

 Coast of Scotland " (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgovj, vol. v. 

 pp. 66-9). 



Order GET ACE A. 



Family BALJENOPTERID^. 



Megaptera longimana (PiudolpJii). Hump-backed Whale. 



"The well-known Dundee Whale" — so referred to by Dr. Buchanan 

 White in his list — was found dead off the coast of Kincardine, having 

 been pre\dously pursued and wounded off the mouth of the Tay, 

 or rather in the Tay estuary. It was afterwards placed in the 

 Dundee Museum (Scot. Nat, 1883-4, p. 200). 



Another, got close to our borders on the north, was stranded in 

 the estuary of the river Dee in 1863 (v. Scot. Nat., vol. i. p. 105). 

 The skeleton of this one is in the Derby Museum in Liverpool. 



Baiaenoptera musculus (X.). Common Rorqual. 



Don records, under the synonym Balcma physahis, having found the 

 skeleton of one of this species " to the east of Dundee " about two 

 years prior to the date of his writing (say 1811). 



Robert Walker describes one which was obtained at Kinkell, some 

 three miles east of St. Andrews (Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 107). 



With reference to the Rorquals and Whalebone Whales feeding 

 upon herring and fishes fry, see Sir Eobert Lloyd Paterson's article in 

 the Irish Naturalist iov Octoher 1904, entitled "Plays of Birds and 

 'Balls' of Fry" {loc. cit., pp. 228-31). 



