1905 - 6 .] On Delphinus acutus from Coast of Sutherland. 319 
In 1858 a school of dolphins was driven ashore at Scalpa Bay, 
near Kirkwall, one of which, a male, measured 8 feet 3 inches in 
length, and along with a specimen 7 feet 2 inches was described 
by Dr Duguid.* From a drawing of the animal which illustrated 
Dr Duguid’s memoir, it was recognised by Dr Gray as identical 
with the dolphin to which he was then applying the name Lageno- 
rhynclius leucopleurus. Mr Moodie Heddle had in his possession f 
a drawing of a male dolphin killed at Scalpa in 1858, doubtless 
one of the school previously described by Dr Duguid, and he 
further stated that three specimens ran ashore at Melsetten in 
1886. That this species frequented the Orkney and Faroe seas, 
and that it had been occasionally found on the opposite shores of 
the North Sea, has been satisfactorily established. Evidence of 
its recognition on the coast of the mainland of Scotland is not, 
however, so definite, though it should be stated Messrs Harvie- 
Brown and Buckley have recorded that the Rev. N. Macpherson 
saw a dolphin lying on the pier at Ardrishaig, Argyleshire, which, 
from a comparison with the figure in Bell’s British Quadrupeds 
he regarded as of this species, but no description or measurements 
were given.; That I am now able to state without doubt that 
Delphinus acutus is an occasional visitor to the coast of the 
mainland, I owe to the Rev. Dr Joass, whose interest in the 
natural history and archaeology of the northern counties and whose 
courtesy to his fellow-workers are so greatly appreciated by men 
of science in Scotland. The skeleton will be added to the 
series of skeletons of the Cetacea in the Anatomical Museum of 
the University. 
* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xiv., 3rd series, op. cit. 
t Vertebrate Fauna of | the Orkney Islands, by J. A. Harvie-Brown and 
T. E. Buckley, Edinburgh, 1896. 
X A Fauna of Argyle and the Inner Hebrides, Edinburgh, 1892. 
( Issued separately August 29, 1906.) 
