Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 11
CAPROS APER (Limmus).
TRAQUAIR, "Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.," vol. x. p. 506 (1891).
A specimen of the Boar-fish, recently captured near the Isle of
May, was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Physical Society, on
the 2oth of February 1889, by Dr. Traquair. Another example
was obtained in the following year, also taken off May Island.
GOBIUS PAGANELLUS, Gllli'lill.
GUNTHER, "Catalogue of Fishes," vol. iii. p. 53 (1861).
Dr. Giinther tells us that there is a half-grown specimen in the
collection of fishes in the British Museum from the Firth of Forth.
It would be both interesting and useful to obtain some further
information regarding this fish as a native of the Forth.
APHIA PELLUCIDA (Nardo).
GUNTHER, "Catalogue of Fishes," vol. iii. p. 80 (1861).
Dr. Giinther (/.r.),
under the name of Latruncnlns allnts, gives
the Firth of Forth as a habitat of the Slender or White Goby, and
mentions that there are three examples from the Firth in the national
collection in the British Museum.
My friend Mr. William Evans informs me that at the beginning
of August 1896 he observed a number of small Gobies in deep
pools at the east limit of Aberlady Bay, and that he believed them
to belong to this species.
This is another Goby about which it is highly desirable we should
obtain further information as a Forth species. Dr. Day (" British
and Irish Fishes," vol. i. p. 171) says that he obtained specimens
at Aberdeen.
LIPARIS MONTAGUI (Donovan).
EVANS, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.,'' p. 255 (1897).
In August 1897, Mr. William Evans found Montagu's Sucker
on three occasions in rock -pools at North Berwick. Here they
concealed themselves among the fronds of Laininaria digitalis
growing round the margins of the pools, and could only be detected
on the closest inspection. The specimens captured were from 2 to
2.5 inches in length.
This species is
probably not uncommon in the littoral waters of
the Firth. Professor M'Intosh (" Marine Fauna of St. Andrews,"
at St. Andrews.
p. 175) says that it is abundant in the rock-pools