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1891, which was secured, and afterwards exhibited. Several 
nearly came to grief off Caister later in the same year, 
and I saw one being crowded about alive on a barrow by 
fishermen in June, 1894. It was moved on by the police, 
and afterwards dispatched, like a pig, in a fishhouse, where, 
in gory struggles, it made a great diversion. It was found 
to be a gravid female, a nearly perfect foetus, 3 ft. 6 in. long, 
being taken from it. The mother was 8 ft. 6 in. in length. 
Porpoise ( Phocoena communis ). This species is frequent, 
and too well known to need further description. 
So far neither the Bottle-nosed Dolphin ( Delphinus tursio ), 
nor the Common Dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ) , the latter, a 
species so well known in the Mediterranean, have as yet 
been taken, or at any rate identified as taken on our Norfolk 
seaboard, although the former has been recorded for both 
Essex and Yorkshire. A careful look-out for these as well 
as Risso’s Grampus ( Grampus griseus J, Sowerby’s Whale 
( Mesoplodon Sowerbiensis J, and the White-sided Dolphin 
( Delphinus acutus ) should be kept, for these as well as 
some other well-established species are as likely to pay us 
a visit as not. That they have not been already identified, 
and recorded, may have been merely an unfortunate accident. 
The late Mr. T. Southwell’s book on the “ Seals and Whales 
of the British Seas,"* a book which he once assured me 
he was by no means proud of, to my mind is extremely 
useful, and should be in the library of every East Coast 
naturalist. 
Published by Jarrold & Sons, 1881. 
