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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
by him to the west of the Isle of May on the 28th of November
1890.
It is a somewhat rare fish, and its distribution is peculiar, since
it
appears to be entirely confined to Scottish seas, wherein it was
discovered by Sir John Murray in 1885.
TRACHINUS DRACO, Linnceus.
GRAY, "Zoologist," 1849, p. 2519; FULTON, "Rep. Fish. Board
Scot," 1889, part iii. p. 356 (1890); SCOTT, "Ann. Scot.
Nat. Hist," 1893, p. 253.
It is rather remarkable that the Greater Weaver should be such
an uncommon species in the Firth of Forth, for it is quite
the reverse
at St. Andrews, where it is described as frequent after storms ;
and
it is not rare on the Scandinavian coasts.
It was first recorded for the Firth by the late Mr. Robert Gray
(J.c.\ who obtained a specimen near to the Bass Rock on the i/jth
of August 1848.
It was next captured so far as we know at Largo Bay in May
1889 by Mr. Scott, as mentioned by Dr. Wemyss Fulton (I.e.],
Mr. Scott also took one,
1 2 inches long, in a shrimp-trawl in the
'Fluke Hole,' off St. Monance, on the 2gth of August 1895
(Fulton, I.e.]
Lastly, so far as the Firth proper is concerned, an example was
reported to me as having been captured, on a hand-line baited with
mussel, off Craigleith at the beginning of July 1899.
It is also occasionally captured by the trawlers outside the May
Island and off St. Abb's Head.
ORCYNUS THYNNUS (Li/mams}.
JAMESON, " Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.," vol. ii. p. 16 (1863);
M'INTOSH, "Rep. Fish. Board Scot," 1885, App., pp. 206-
207, pi. viii. (1886); MASTERMAN, op. tit., 1893, part iii. pp.
273-283, pis. xi. and xii. (1894).
A specimen of the Tunny, 8 feet long, which had been captured
in Aberlady Bay, was exhibited by Professor Jameson at the meeting
of the Royal Physical Society on the 28th of April 1842, and is
the first Forth record known to me.
A fine male, 9 feet long and weighing 6| cwts., was caught in
a trawl in the 'Fraith,' off Pittenweem, in October 1885, as
recorded by Professor M'Intosh (i.e.).
The skeleton of this
and its
specimen was described in detail by Mr. Masterman (/.),
characters and anatomy by Professor M'Intosh ("Ann. and Mag.
Nat. Hist." (5), vol. xvii. pp. 236-337, pi. xi.).