Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

214 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY
One, 4.5 feet, weighing over 4 cwt., Queensferry, 2Qth October 1887
("Scotsman," ist November 1887).
Three, 12 inches or less, on beach, North Berwick, 26th September
1890 (W. Evans).
One, 4 feet, Pettycur, nth October 1890 (W. Evans).
I examined a specimen, weighing over 3 cwt., which had been
stranded dead, but quite fresh, at Elie on the 5th October 1895.
LAMNA CORNUBICA (Gmelin}.
"
PARNELL, pp. 413-414. Several examples have been taken in the
Firth of Forth, principally in herring-nets" (p. 414).
Although the Porbeagle occasionally visits the North Sea off the
mouth of the Firth, it would appear that it
only rarely enters the
estuary.
A specimen, 7 feet long, was exhibited by Professor Jameson at
the meeting of the Royal Physical Society on the 28th of April 1842,
which had been captured in the Firth (" Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin.,"
vol. ii. p. 10).
One, 6 feet 1 1 inches long, was taken in a herring-net near
Inchkeith on the i7th of November 1855 (]. A. Smith, op.
rit. vol. i.
P- 57)-
Sir William Turner's paper,
'
On the Presence of Spiracles in the
Porbeagle Shark' ("Jour. Anat. Phys.," vol. ix. pp. 301-302, 1875)
was based upon a young female, measuring 3 feet 5.5 inches, which
had been captured off the mouth of the Firth.
One, 7 feet long, taken off the Forth on the 7th of October
1885, had been abstracting hooked fishes from the long lines
(M'Intosh, "Rep. Fish. Board Scot.," 1885, App., p. 210).
L^MARGUS MICROCEPHALUS
EAGLE CLARKE, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist," 1900, p. 16.
Sir William Turner has kindly drawn my
attention to the
following additional occurrence of the Greenland Shark :
A young male, 6 feet i inch, caught off the Isle of May at the
mouth of the Firth, in May 1874 (Turner, "Jour. Anat. Phys.,"
vol. viii. p. 285).
RAIA MACRORHYNCHIUS, Rafincsque.
Raia intermedia, PARNELL, pp. 429-431. "This fish, which was
obtained in the Firth of Forth in the month of May, seems to
be a new species.
. . . I have met with two examples of a variety
of this fish, which were taken in the salmon-nets at Queensferry
(p.
"
430).