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1788, recording twelve Cachelots there in February 1763, after a stiff northerly gale ; some, cut up and measured by the writer came ashore. Physeterula Dubusi, Ben. Small Sperm-whales.— Physodon grandis, DuB. These six Continental Physodon fusiformis, DuB. species have all been disHoplocetus crassidens, Owen. covered in the Red Crag of Suffolk Hoplocetus Borgerhoutensis, DuB. nodule-bed (Vict. Hist. 1911, 41). Hoplocetus curvidens, Gerv. Eucetus amblyodon, DuB. Large Cachelot.—Several larger Crag teeth (in Ipsw. Mus.) have been ascribed to this Belgian species. Balcenodon physaloides, Owen. Large Cachelot.—Equally large teeth in our Felixstow Red Crag (Brit. Fossil Mam. and Birds, 1846, p. 536 : in Ipsw. Mus.). 49. Hyperoodon rostratum, Chem. Common Bottle-nosed W hale.—Nearly sure to have occurred on our coast, as it did at Hunstanton in 1910 (Tr. Norf. Soc. ix, pp. 197, 305). Needs confirmation. Hyperoodon Taylori, Lyd. Extinct Bottle-nosed Whale. A perfect right periotic from our Pliocene Red Crag in Ipswich Museum, and vertebnc from Antwerp Crag, have been thus named in honour of Dr. J. E. Taylor of that museum (Vict. Hist. 1911, p. 41). For var. Benedeni, cf. 41y J. Geol. Soc xliii P- 2, fig. 6. ' . Beaked Whales, of extinct I species occurring in our Choneziphius planirostris, Cuv. Red Crag nodule-bed, conChoneziphius planus, Owen. generic with the present Choneziphius Packardi, Lank. ) Ziphius cavirostris, Cuv., still a rare British visitor. Beaked Whales (cf. 41y Journ. Geol.Soc. xlvi, p. 18). Fossil rostra have been so numerously found in our Pliocene Red Crag, of which Mesoplodon angustus, Owen. one periotic from the nodule Mesoplodon longirostris, Cuv. -bed is in the Practtcal GeoMesoplodon tenuirostris, Owen. logy Museum, that many Mesoplodon angulatus, Owen. f species have been erected : these seven (in Ipswich Mesoplodon compressus, Hux. Museum, local tfrom rom Mesoplodon floris, Newt.-Trimleyy l .. l o c a I M ^ t - i J xt . I deposits) appear dist.nct. -1Iesoplodon scaphoides, Newt. \ M . Sowerbiensis, Blain., nowadays rarely visits Scots and Irish, but not Suffoician coasts (cf. Trans, supra i 240).