PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS. 
In the course of the summer of 1862, three specimens of a large and, in several respects, 
remarkable dolphin were thrown dead on the shores of the Danish islands of Sealand and 
Funen. As chance would have it, my first information was about the one that had last been drifted 
ashore; and as the measures taken by me to endeavour to procure some parts of this animal for 
the Zoological Museum caused me to become acquainted with the individuals which were stranded 
at an earlier date, I shall begin my account with this specimen. 
On the 14th of August, 1862, the local newspaper of Kallundborg, a town on the north¬ 
western coast of Sealand, contained the intelligence, which from thence found its way into several 
of the newspapers of Copenhagen, that a Cetacean said to have been eight or nine ells long had 
several days before been thrown up dead in the neighbourhood on the southern beach of Asnaes, 
a small tongue of land belonging to the estates of Count Lerche, of Lerchenborg. The short 
account contained nothing in reference to the colour or appearance of the animal; but judging 
from the statement about its size, I supposed that it was most probably an Orca (a so-called 
“ Svaerdfisk’’ or “ Sptekhugger,” or killer), an animal, therefore, tolerably well known ; and 
as, moreover, there was very little chance of my arriving in time to profit much by a journey 
to the place where it had been stranded, several days having already elapsed since the occur¬ 
rence, I thought it not worth while to go. Some three weeks afterwards, however, a tooGi 
was shown to me, which had been found lying beside the dead body, and was brought to Cope n- 
[This figure (taken from a photograph) is not in the original memoir.— W. H. F.J 
Female, sixteen feet in length ; killed in the Bay of Kiel, November 24th, 1861. 1 
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