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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. XL 



Recorded Specimens of Mesoplodon bidens 



Elginshire, Scotland ] 

 Havre, France i 

 Sallenelles, France i. 

 Ostend, France i 

 Brandon Bay, Ireland I 



Nantucket, Mass. ] 

 Skager Eack J 

 Brandon Bay, Ireland I 

 ?Scotland ] 

 Hevringholm Strand, ] 



:. 21, 1835 Dumortier, '39 

 . 9, 1864 Andrews, '69 

 >re 1866 Van Beneden, '66 



s 15, 1869 A. W. Malm, '71 



■ 31, 1870 Andrews, '70 



I Turner, '72; Flower, '72 



. 3, 1880 Reinhardt, '80- '81 



Oct. 30, 1881 A. H. Main: 

 May 23, 1885 Turner, '85 

 Aug. 6, 



) Southwell and Clarke^ 



17 male Firth of Forth, Scot- Oct., 



Aug., 1888 



Van Beneden, '88 

 Southwell and Har- 



mer, '93 

 Fischer, '92 

 Mar. 28, 1889 Turner, '89 

 Aug. 25, 1895 Grieg, '98 

 Aug. 29, 1895 Grieg, '98 

 Aug., 1898 Hyatt, '99 

 Nov. 14, 1901 Grieg, :04, :05 

 July 22, 1905 



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To this list should probably be added the record of a specimen 

 found floating in the sea at the entrance of the British Channel 

 about 1840. The skull of this whale is said to be in the museum 

 at Caen (Flower, 78) and on it Gervais in 1850 founded his Meso- 

 plodon europaus. Some confusion has also existed in regard to 



