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Note on a rare Dolphin (Delphinus acutus), recently stranded on the Coast of Sutherland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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page 312 note * Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xiv., 3rd series, p. 133, 1864.

page 314 note * See my paper on the “Sperm Whale,” in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxiv. p. 430, 1903, for measurements and characters of the tympanic and petrous bones in the Getacea.

page 317 note * I may refer to my account of the Anatomy of Sowerby's Whale, Journ. Anat. and Phys., Oct. 1885, and to my description of Balœnoptera rostrata. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., Feb. 1892, for a critical examination of the constitution of the manus in the Cetacea.

page 317 note † Measurements of the skull, skeleton and other characters of this dolphin are given in Knox's Catalogue of Anatomical Preparations illustrative of the Whale, Edinburgh, 1838; also in Proc. Linnean Soc., Zoology, 1857, p. 67.

page 319 note * Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xiv., 3rd series, op. cit.

page 319 note † Vertebrate Fauna of the Orkney Islands, by J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley, Edinburgh, 1896.

page 319 note ‡ A Fauna of Argyle and the Inner Hebrides, Edinburgh, 1892.