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204 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY authority on the subject, considerations of convenience may be allowed to outweigh other exigencies. I have, however, indicated, in square brackets, a few necessary changes in nomenclature. a number of uncommon fishes which It is somewhat remarkable that we lack further information for quite came under the notice of Dr. Parnell or his predecessors. Thus we appear to have no additional records for the past half-century, or more, regarding the occurrence of the following species in the Firth : Pagellus oweni (P. came, Parnell), Maurolicus pennantii (Scopelns Jmmboltii, Parnell), Thynnns pelamyS) Gobius niger, Mugil capita, Atherina presbyter, Cetenolabrus rupestris (Crcnilabrus rupestris, Parnell), Brosmius brosme (B. vulgaris, Parnell), Clupea alosa (Alosa communis, Parnell), Nerophis ophidian (Syngnathus ophidian, Parnell), Selaclie maxima {SelacJius maxima, Parnell), RJiina squatina (Squatina angelus, Parnell), Raia fullonica (R. chagrina, Parnell), and Raia maculata. I. ADDITIONAL SPECIES. The following two additions bring the grand Forth fishes to 142 species. total of CANTHARUS LINEATUS (Montagu] [CANTHARUS CANTHARUS (Gm.}~\. GUNTHER, "Catalogue of Fishes/ vol. i. p. 414, 1859. This species, known as the Black Sea-Bream and Old Wife, is an addition to Dr. Parnell's " Fishes of the Firth of Forth." It is an uncommon species in the North Sea, being an inhabitant of the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic to Madeira and the Canaries, but it reaches the south and west coasts of England. Though not included in Dr. Parnell's "Essay," yet his collection, now in the British Museum (Natural History), contains an adult stuffed example from the " Firth of Forth " (Giinther, I.e.}. There appears to be no further information regarding this fish as a Forth species. RAIA CIRCULARIS, Couch. "REP. FISH. BOARD SCOT.," 1893, part iii. p. 74; 1894, part iii. p. 45. The Sandy Ray is also an addition to the fauna of the Firth of Forth, made since Dr. Parnell's researches. It appears to be very
FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 205 scarce in the estuary, and the few examples which have been obtained were all immature fish. One was captured in the trawl of the " Garland," within the Forth, in February 1893 ; and another, 8 inches long, was taken at Station 6 on the 28th of July in the same year. On the 3oth of November 1894, an example, 12 inches in length, was again captured by the " Garland " at Station 6. I think it is probable that the Ray recorded by Mr. W. S. Young ("Proc.Roy.Phys. Soc. Edin.," vol.ii. pp.4i7-4i9) as"fiaia M'Coyii" (a name I cannot find in the synonomy of any of the Raiidse) is referable to the Sandy Ray. M'Coy, in 1841, described ("Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.," vol. vi. p. 405), without giving it a name, a Ray from the coast of Ireland, which afterwards proved to belong to this species and it is ; possible that Mr. Young considered his Forth specimen was referable to this form, and adopted for it the specific name of Mi Coyii. Mr. Young's example was 12 inches long and 6.25 broad, and was captured in the " Fluke Hole," off Pittenweem, in May 1860. II. ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF RARE SPECIES. The following records supplement the information given either in Dr. Parnell's " Essay " or in my own previous con.tribution, as the case may be. PAGELLUS CENTRODONTUS, Delaroche. PARNELL, pp. 206-209. "I" tne Firth of Forth very little is known regarding this fish, as its appearance there is of rare occurrence. Two specimens, however, have been noticed in the Firth" (p. 208). We are not able to add much to the statements made by Dr. Parnell more than half a century ago. The common Sea-Bream must still be regarded as an infrequent visitor to, or rare in, the estuary, though, according to Professor M'Intosh (" Marine Fauna of St. Andrews," it p. is 172), "not uncommon" in St. Andrews Bay. The following are the only additional occurrences known to me : Dr. John Alexander Smith records ("Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1852, vol. ix. p. 154) the capture of an example, 18.5 inches in length, in a trawl-net off the Isle of May, near the mouth of the Firth, on the 29th of November 1851. Dr. Smith remarks that it appears to be a very rare fish, or at least to be very rarely caught in our neighbouring seas, as far as he has been able to ascertain.
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