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FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 211<br />
Two,<br />
ches, Station 5, on the icth May<br />
Board<br />
One, 6 inches, Station 8, 9 th Scot.,"<br />
May 1889,<br />
1889.<br />
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One, 15. 75 inches, Dunbar, 2nd P 357 ''<br />
June 1889.<br />
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One examined by me was captured five miles east of the Isle of<br />
May on the 9th of December 1892.<br />
One, 9 inches, Station 5, 24th February 1892 ("Rep. Fish. Board<br />
Scot.," part iii. p. 48).<br />
One, 9 inches, Station 9. igth February 1892 (t.c. p. 50).<br />
One, 8 inches, Station 9, 6th May 1892 (t.c. p. 61).<br />
One, 7 inches, Station 9, i2th September 1892 (t.c. p. 84).<br />
One, ii inches, Station 3, 26th December 1893 (fPc^-<br />
I<br />
&93, P art<br />
iii. p. 95).<br />
One, ii inches, Station 9, i2th September 1894 (op. at. 1894, part<br />
iii. p. 49).<br />
One, 5 inches, Station i, i7th April 1895 (op. cit. 1895, P art "i- P-<br />
35)-<br />
One, full-grown, end of November 1897, caught near the Isle of<br />
May.<br />
It was considered by the fishermen to be very rare (W.<br />
Evans).<br />
Mr. Thomas Scott informs me that on the 4th of December<br />
1897 he received a finely-coloured specimen which had been<br />
caught by a Granton trawler off the Carr Lightship on the<br />
previous day. It was 17! inches in length.<br />
HlPPOGLOSSOIDES LIMANDOIDES (Bhctl) [H. PLATESSOIDES<br />
(Fabricins}\<br />
Platessa Hmandoidcs, PARNELL, pp. 368-370. First recorded as<br />
British from Forth specimens (" Edin. New Phil. Jour.," 1835,<br />
p. 210) captured in the summer of 1834.<br />
Parnell gives us no further particulars regarding the Long Rough<br />
Dab as a Forth fish. It is, however, an abundant species within<br />
and just outside the Firth. On the 6th of July 1895, when on a<br />
trawling expedition in the " Garland," we captured many specimens<br />
a little below Inchkeith.<br />
During ten years' (1886-1895) experimental trawling by the<br />
"Garland" in various stations in the Firth, about 6570 mature and<br />
over 9000 immature specimens of this Pleuronectid were obtained.<br />
ARNOGLOSSUS MEGASTOMA (Donovan\<br />
EAGLE CLARKE, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1900, p. 14.<br />
In addition to the previous information afforded, I find that, during<br />
the trawling experiments of the " Garland," seventeen examples<br />
of the Sail Fluke were obtained in the Firth between 1889 and 1896.
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