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fisherman, but it would appear that the number of humps on 
the hack is variable. It is probably the Bdoena monstrosa, 
Euyssh’s Theat. Anim., vol I. tah 41.” 
Dolphin . — Belphinus Aelphis. 
Jenyns, p 40 ; Bell, p 463, 2nd ed., p 462 ; Blashis, p 516 ; Clermont, p 146. 
Common. Visits Mount’s Bay in large shoals during the 
summer. 
Gbampus . — Belphinus orca. 
Jenyns, p 42 ; Bell, p 477, 2nd ed., p 445 ; Blasius, p 522 ; Clermont, p 150. 
Occasionally captured- 
PoEPOiSE . — Phocoena communis. 
Jenyns, p 41 ; Bell, p 473, 2nd ed., p Blasins, p 520 ; Clermont, p 149. 
Common. “The sniffer of the Cornish fisherman. It is 
sometimes caught in drift nets, and I have known it take a bait, 
though it commonly proves too strong for the line. The rolling 
motion of this and some other of the smaller species is caused 
by the situation of the nostrils on the anterior part of the top of 
the head, to breathe through which the body must be placed 
in somewhat of an erect posture from which to descend, it passes 
through a considerable portion of a circle. They rarely congre- 
gate into a herd, like the other Delphini, and commonly no 
more than a pair .is seen together.” 
Bisso’s Gbampus. — Grampus griseus. 
Bell, 2nd ed., p 450 ; Blasius, p 523 ; Clermont, p 152. 
A beautiful specimen of this cetacean, an adult female 10 feet 
6 inches long, was caught in the mackerel nets, off the Eddystone, 
28th Feb., 1870. It is now in the British Museum. See Jour- 
nal of Anatomy and Physiology, Nov. 1870, and Professor 
Flower’s Memoir, Trans. Zool. Soc., VIII. 1. 
Pilot ob Ca’ing Whale. — Glohicephalus nielas. 
Jenyns, p 12 ; Bell, p 483, 2nd ed., p 453 ; Blasius, p 521 ; Clermont, p 42. 
One or two have been taken, but I have no record of the times 
or places. One was brought into Plymouth in A 2 iril, 1839. 
[See some notes by Mr. Coucb “ on the time and manner of the proci’cation of 
.some species of Whales Zoologist, 1845, p 1161.] 
