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NOTES ON THE WHALES OF NORFOLK. 
examples have from time to time been stranded on our 
shores, mostly, I believe, alive, through having become 
muddled and bewildered in negociating our sands. The 
stranding of one in December last at Holme, near Hun- 
stanton, will be fresh in memory. In Scotland the animal 
is sometimes driven ashore by boatmen, in shoals at times 
numbering many individuals. Of this species no fewer 
than sixty were stranded at one time near Penzance on 
July 1st, 1911, when peculiarly brutal treatment was 
accorded them, several being uselessly and wantonly 
mutilated. 
The Grampus ( Orca gladiator ) has several times occurred. 
Sir Thomas Browne mentions a 16ft. example at Yarmouth 
about 1658. At Y'armouth another came to grief upon the 
beach in July, 1823. Others are Lynn, 1830 — one of 21 feet, 
and a 14 cwt. example was brought ashore in June, 1867. A 
small one (7 ft. 6 in. in length) was landed at Lowestoft on 
November 12th, 1894; and another identical with it was 
brought into Yarmouth a week after, which I saw exhibited 
upon a wheelbarrow. 
The Pilot Whale ( Globiocephalus melasj. Mr. Southwell 
records one example for Norfolk as washed ashore near 
Mundesley in January, 1879. There does not seem much 
information available with regard to this example. 
The White Beaked Dolphin ( Lagenorhy?icopus albir osier ). 
Of this interesting species quite a number of individuals 
have been recorded. In our Transactions Mr. Southwell has 
given a full account of the species. The greatest number of 
records are from Yarmouth, where it has been landed by 
fishermen, who have been sharing with it the pursuit of 
herrings. Its distinguishing feature has been responsible for 
its commonplace name. I have myself seen the species. 
One of 7 feet at Gorleston, April, 1890 ; another on the 
beach, of 4 feet 8 in. in April, 1891 ; on this the gulls were 
busily at work. One went up-river to Breydon in August, 
