Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
specimen at the meeting of the Royal Physical Society which had
been recently taken off Eyemouth.
One 7 inches long was captured by the ' Garland,' whilst trawling
west of the Isle of May, on the lyth of December 1890, as recorded
by Dr. Wemyss Fulton and
(I.e.} ; another, 4.18 inches, was taken in
the same station on the 2gth of April the same year (Eagle Clarke,
I.e.}. My friend Mr. Miles Johnson showed me an example, 6.35
inches long, which he had captured with rod and line, baiting with
mussel, off the Bass Rock, in 12 fathoms of water, on the 2nd of
August 1899.
Mr. Scott informs me that it occurs above Queensferry, but it is
not a common species in the Firth, and that it is confined to moderately
deep water.
Fertilised ova were obtained off the Bell Rock in June 1891,
and it is said to be common at St. Andrews.
PHYCIS BLENNOIDES (BrunnicJi),
SCOTT, "Rep. Fish. Board. Scot.," 1888, part iii. p. 326 (1889).
Mr. Scott (I.e.]
records the capture of a Greater Forked Beard off
St. Monance, remarking that there did not seem to be any previous
record for the Firth of Forth. This specimen was taken with beamtrawl
in February 1888.
Mr. E. E. Prince, now Inspector of Fisheries, Dominion of
Canada, however, writing in the "Scotsman" of 5th March 1887,
says that this fish is '
not uncommon off the mouth of the Firth.
Occasionally fine specimens are stranded at St. Andrews.'
ARNOGLOSSUS MEGASTOMA (Donorcm),
EWART and MAITLAND, "Rep. Fish. Board Scot.," 1886, App., p. 63
(1887); SCOTT, op.
cit. 1888, part. iii.
pp. 325-326 (1889).
In their account of the "Fish taken by the 'Garland,'" Messrs.
Ewart and Maitland (I.e.)
mention a Sail Fluke (A. megastoma) of
medium size, trawled at Station VI. (off Pittenweem, 10-15 fathoms)
on the i5th of September 1886. Mr. Scott (I.e.)
records 'a few
specimens inside May Island and near Fidra [in 1888]. This species
is not recorded by Dr. Parnell in his " Fishes of the Firth of Forth,"
and is
probably not very common in the estuary.'
SOLEA LUTEA (RlSSo).
REP. MARINE. ZOOL. COMM., " Proc.
vol.
ii.
p. 240 (1863).
Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.,"
Under the name of Monochirus lingulatus, the Marine Zoological
Committee of the Royal Physical Society records four Solenettes