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. 



