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■was tlio lowest mean temperature recorded at Greenwich for 
the montli of December in the present century. Very dense 
fogs occurred on the IGth and 22nd, On the morning of the 
lOtli a very thick fog prevailed until 10.30 a.m. ; and at 5,30 
p.m, on the 22nd, one of the most remarkable fogs ever known in 
ISorwich was recorded. The total rainfall was only O.GO in. 
and was 1.40 in. below the average. 
Jho total rainfall for the year was 24.72 in.s., being 0.79 in. 
above the average of the la.st 38 years. ’ 
XV. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 
WiiiTE-nEAKED DoLPHiN {Dclpldnus albirostris). At our 
meeting on the 2oth ot July, 187G, I communicated to this 
Society (Trans. X. and X. X. S. vol. ii. p. 333) the occurrence of 
a young male of this species at Lowestoft, the skeleton of which is 
now in the Zoological i^ruseum of the University of Cambridge 
On the 24th of August last, another individual of the same specFes 
was captured by some fishermen in their nets off Yarmouth. On 
the following day I had an opportunity of examining it as it was 
exhibited on the beach, and eventually succeeded in ju’ocuriim the 
head I now exhibit the skull, which I have prepared for the 
^ 01 folk and ISorwich Museum. The specimen was a very younf' 
?, and closely resembled both in colour and outline the yoiiim J 
before referred to, and which will be found figured in the ‘Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society ’ for 187G (p. G79). It is remark- 
able that four out of the seven or eight recorded examples of ibis 
species should have been met with on the Xorfolk coast. The first 
a temalo described and figured by .Air. Drightwell (‘Annals and 
Afagazine of Asatural History,’ 1st series, vol. xvii. p. 21) was 
taken oil larniouth in 184G; a second, shot by Air. If. Af. Upcher 
near Cromer, is recorded in the same magazine for April, 1806 (3rd 
series, vol, xvii. ji. 312); the third, taken at Lowestoft in Afarch, 
