. The seals and whales of the British seas. 1858, will be found in the Ann. andMag. of Nat. Hist. (3rd series) for August, 1864, vol. xiv., p. 133. WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN. The last species on the British list, the White-BEAKED Dolphin {Delphinusalbirostris, J, E. Gray ; LagenorJiynchiis albirostris, J. E. Gray, Zool. Erebusand Terror), is also of rare occurrence : it is a native of the North Atlantic,has occurred at the Faroe Islands, and on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, 126 SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRLTLSH SEAS. and Denmark, also at Ostend, but little is known of its habits. A Dolphin ofthis
. The seals and whales of the British seas. 1858, will be found in the Ann. andMag. of Nat. Hist. (3rd series) for August, 1864, vol. xiv., p. 133. WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN. The last species on the British list, the White-BEAKED Dolphin {Delphinusalbirostris, J, E. Gray ; LagenorJiynchiis albirostris, J. E. Gray, Zool. Erebusand Terror), is also of rare occurrence : it is a native of the North Atlantic,has occurred at the Faroe Islands, and on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, 126 SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRLTLSH SEAS. and Denmark, also at Ostend, but little is known of its habits. A Dolphin ofthis species was killed at Hartlepool in 1834, but not recognized at the time :the skull is now in the Cambridge Museum. This species was, I believe, firstdescribed as British by Mr. Brightwell, under the name of D. tursio, from aspecimen taken off Yarmouth, in 1S46. His paper, with a figure from adrawing made by Miss Brightwell, will be found in the Ann. and Mag. ofNat. Hist., first series, January, 1846, vol. xvii, p. 21. Another specimen was. Fig. 29. WHITE-iiEAKED DoLPHlN [Delplunus albcrostris, J. E. Gray). shot by Mr. H. M. Upcher, near Cromer, and will be found recorded by in the same Magazine, for April, 1866, vol. xvii., p. 312. A fourth, anadult male, 9 feet long, was taken at the mouth of the Dee, in December,1862 ; and a fifth on the south coast, in 1871. In September, 1875, a young female was taken off Grimsby, and inMarch, 1876, a young male was captured oft Lowestoft. The first-named ofthese latter formed the subject of a communication to the Zoological Societyof London, by Dr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, and the latter of a subsequent SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRITLSH SEAS. 127 notice, by Mr. J. W. Clark, of Cambridge. Both papers will be found printedin the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1876, p. 679, et seq., andfigures of the two specimens are given on the same plate. On the 24thAugust, 1879, ^ young female, the skull of which is now in the Norfolk
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