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Show 686 MR. J. W. CLARK ON DELPHINUS ALBIROSTRIS. [June 20, the Baltic. Eschricht states that it appears regularly in Davis's Straits in the wake of migratory fish, at the time when the Beluga and Narwhal leave their winter quarters for the Polar regions. The following table shows the localities in which it has been caught. Coast of England. South Coast A male in 1871. Its anatomy was described by Dr. Murie (Proc. Lin. Soc. 1871). Skeleton in Brit. Mus. ^ /Yarmouth A female (described and figured by Brightwell o Ann. and Mag. Nat Hist. vol. xvii. i846). Skull § in Brit. Mus. *r] •{ Cromer Specimen shot by Mr. Upcber (Ann. & Mag. Nat. 2 | Hist. vol. xviii. 1866). Skull in British Museum. g Lowestoft Specimen captured a few weeks ago. In the pos- O V session of Mr. J. W . Clark of Cambridge. Great Grimsby Young female, now described. Skeleton in Edin. Univ. Museum. Hartlepool First recorded specimen, 1834. Skull in Cambridge Museum. Coast of Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Ostend Two females, described by Van Beneden (Nouv. Mem. de l'Acad. Brux. t. xxxii. 1861). Kiel Two specimens, one of wbicb furnished to M. Claudius the subject of bis memoir entitled "Dissert, de Lagenorhynchis" (Kiliae 1853). Bergen One specimen. Skull in Museum there. Gullholmen Two pregnant females. Skeleton of one preserved by F. A. Smith, Acad. Docent., and now in the Museum of the Univ. of Upsala. Skanor One stranded. Lower jaw in the Zoological Museum of the University of Lund. Specimens have also been seen off the Faroe Islands. In conclusion my best thanks are due to Mr. J. H. Scott, Demonstrator of Anatomy, for the accurate water-colour drawing which he executed of the Great-Grimsby Dolphin. It is from it that the accompanying figure (Plate LXIV. fig. 1) is taken. 13. Notes on a Dolphin taken off the Coast of Norfolk. By J. W . C L A R K , M.A., F.Z.S. [Received June 20, 1876.] (Plate LXIV. fig. 2 & Plate LXV.) On the 26th of March in the present year a large Porpoise was caught by some fishermen off Lowestoft. It was fortunately secured for me on the same day, and despatched to Cambridge. The men who captured it called it a White-beaked Bottlenose. The animal was a male, and, as was discovered afterwards by the condition of the bones, quite young. The weight was 139 pounds. |