Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

16 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
CARCHARIAS GLAUCUS (Linnceus).
EVANS, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1898, p. 239.
A Blue Shark, 10 feet long, was, according to the "Edinburgh
Evening Dispatch," captured on Kinghorn beach on the 3oth of
November 1894.
One captured in the salmon - nets at Gullane Point, East
Lothian, on the yth of July 1898, was examined and recorded by
Mr. Wm. Evans (I.e.).
This species is
probably more frequent in its visits to the Forth
than our present knowledge might warrant us to believe.
It is mentioned as not uncommon at St. Andrews ; captured in
the salmon-nets (M'Intosh).
ALOPIAS VULPES (Gmelin).
HAMILTON, "Nat. Lib. Brit. Fishes," vol. ii. p. 313 (1843).
A fine specimen of the Fox-Shark was exhibited, at a meeting of
Wernerian Society, which had been captured in Largo Bay in August
1842 (Hamilton, /.r.).
A second example of this rare visitor to the waters of the Forth
is recorded by Mr. Stirton in the present number of the " Annals."
It was strangled in a salmon-net in Roome Bay, Crail, on zgt\\ of
August 1899, and measured 13 feet 10.5 inches in length.
LiEMARGUS MICROCEPHALUS (BlocJl).
BROWN, "Zoologist," 1860, p. 6861 ;
REP. ZOOL. COMM., "Proc.
Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.," vol. ii. p. 445 (1863); BROOK, "Rep.
Fish. Board Soc.," 1885, App., p. 227 (1886).
Dr. Robert Brown (I.e.)
records the first Greenland Shark for the
Firth of Forth an example 10 feet long, captured on the 5th of
May 1859.
This specimen, perhaps, is the one alluded to in the Report of
the Marine Zoology Committee of the Royal Physical Society (I.e.),
wherein it is stated that ' about three years since, in May, one was
caught near Inchkeith, and is now in the University Museum.'
Mr. George Brook (Lc.) recorded a young female, 5 feet in length,
captured in the Firth on the 2nd of February 1886.
Mr. William Evans informs me that a male, about 5 feet long,
was exhibited in Mr. Anderson's (fishmonger) shop, Edinburgh,
which had been taken off the Isle of May on the i6th of December
1889 and that another was cast ; up west of the mouth of the Tyne
on the i
yth of February 1895.