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length ; they were arranged in a line, and about a quarter of an 
inch apart. The following measurements, the animal being so very 
young, may be worth recording. And here I wish to correct an 
obvious error in a table of measurements of an individual of this 
species, given by me on p. 150 of the present volume — in the 
fourth and fifth measurements in the table, for caudal fin read 
dorsal fin. 
Ft. lu. 
Total length from anterior edge of upper lip to notch in 
middle of caudal fin (in straight line) . . . 3 10 
From upper lip to anterior edge of dorsal fin (along curve) 1 lOi 
From anterior edge of dorsal fin to notch in caudal fin 
(along curve) . . . . . .23 
Base of dorsal fin . . . , . .08 
Vertical length of dorsal fin . . . .06 
Pectoral fin from junction with body to tip along anterior 
edge . . . . . . . 0 Hi 
From anterior edge of upper lip to angle of mouth . 0 6.x 
From anterior edge of upper lip to anterior edge of blowhole 0 8.1 
From point to point of the flukes of caudal fin . .011 
It is worth mentioning that the fishermen spoke of this species 
as Avell known to them, under the name of “Scoulter;” a previous 
individual which was exhibited on Yarmouth beach was also, 
without hesitation, pronounced by the fisherman who looked at it 
to be a Scoulter. It is difficult to s&j whether that name is applied 
by them to this species oidy (if so it must be more frei{uent than 
we imagine), or whether other species are included with it ; it is 
quite certain, however, that there is no confusion between this 
animal and the common Porpoise, which is always spoken of by its 
proper name. — T. Southwell. 
On Seals, a Sturgeon, and large Eels observed in the Ouse, 
AT Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire. Hearing that a Seal had been 
captured during the month of Hovember in the Eiver Ouse at 
Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire, and taken to the Cambridge 
DIuseum, it seemed to me that the occurrence of the common Seal 
so far inland was a curious circumstance; and I wrote to my friend 
tlie Eev. John Rumpf, rector of Bluntisham, to ask for further 
particulars. Mr. Rumpf has been so good as to send me, in repl}’', 
the following notes, which I think are worthy of record : — “ The 
Seal was seen on or about the 18th of Hovembor, in the Ouse, by a 
