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  THE 
  VERTEBBATE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  " 
  DEE.' 
  

  

  itself 
  in 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  Pennan, 
  and 
  that 
  Col. 
  Garden 
  Campbell 
  

   of 
  Troup 
  fired 
  several 
  shots 
  at 
  it. 
  It 
  disappeared 
  however, 
  

   and 
  was 
  seen 
  about 
  an 
  hour 
  afterwards 
  by 
  the 
  salmon 
  fishers 
  

   at 
  Aberdour, 
  making 
  in 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  Fraserburgh. 
  This 
  

   is 
  the 
  only 
  White 
  Whale 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  seen 
  on 
  the 
  

   coast." 
  So 
  says 
  Horn 
  in 
  his 
  Mammalia 
  of 
  Buchan 
  (1882). 
  Two 
  

   very 
  different 
  species 
  have 
  here 
  been 
  confounded, 
  viz., 
  the 
  

   Narwhal 
  and 
  the 
  White 
  Whale 
  ; 
  creatures 
  so 
  utterly 
  unlike 
  

   that 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  understand 
  how 
  the 
  mistake 
  could 
  have 
  

   arisen. 
  Neither 
  has 
  been 
  recorded 
  as 
  having 
  occurred 
  on 
  

   the 
  Buchan 
  coasts, 
  unless 
  the 
  animal 
  fired 
  at 
  by 
  Col. 
  Garden 
  

   Campbell 
  was 
  a 
  White 
  Whale.] 
  

  

  Genus 
  ORCA. 
  

  

  [Orca 
  gladiator, 
  Bonnaterre. 
  The 
  Killer. 
  

  

  Again 
  we 
  are 
  informed 
  by 
  Horn 
  that 
  this 
  animal 
  is 
  

   "very 
  common 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  during 
  the 
  herring 
  fishing. 
  

   Several 
  have 
  come 
  ashore 
  at 
  Pennan 
  Head 
  of 
  late 
  years. 
  

   One, 
  measuring 
  twelve 
  feet 
  in 
  length, 
  came 
  ashore 
  at 
  Nether- 
  

   mill 
  about 
  twelve 
  years 
  ago, 
  and 
  one 
  at 
  Gamrie 
  three 
  years 
  

   ago." 
  Here, 
  again, 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  confusing 
  of 
  species. 
  

   Orca 
  gladiator 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  known 
  to 
  occur 
  on 
  the 
  Buchan 
  

   coast, 
  much 
  less 
  is 
  it 
  common 
  there. 
  What 
  has 
  been 
  

   mistaken 
  for 
  it 
  was, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  the 
  Fox 
  Shark, 
  Alopias 
  vulpes.] 
  

  

  Genus 
  GLOBICEPHALUS. 
  

   Globicephalus 
  melas, 
  Traill. 
  Pilot 
  Whale. 
  

  

  A 
  female 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  found 
  at 
  Cove, 
  Kincardine- 
  

   shire, 
  in 
  1871. 
  Its 
  skeleton 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  Anatomical 
  

   Museum, 
  Aberdeen 
  University. 
  

  

  Genus 
  PHOOENA. 
  

  

  Phocaena 
  communis, 
  Lesson. 
  Porpoise. 
  "Louper 
  Dog." 
  

  

  Abundant. 
  At 
  times 
  it 
  is 
  seen 
  in 
  great 
  numbers 
  rolling 
  

   and 
  tumbling 
  about 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  shore. 
  

  

  