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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 Queens- 

 ferry " (p. 430). 



