THE MARINE AND FRESH- WATER FISHES. 



BY THOMAS SCOTT, F.L.S., Fishery Board Laboratory, Aberdeen, 



AND ALFRED BROWN, Luss. 



NOMENCLATURE FOLLOWED. 



A History of Scandinavian Fishes by B. Fries, C. U. Ekstrom, and C. 

 Sundevall, 2nd edit., revised by Prof. F. A. Smitt (1893-95). 



ARRANGEMENT FOLLOWED. 

 Dr. Francis Day, The Fishes of Gt. Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. 1880-84. 



AUTHORITIES WITH THEIR ABBREVIATED REFERENCES. 



B. & S. = "A list of L. Fyne fishes," by Geo. Brook, F.L.S., and Thos. Scott, 



F.L.S. (Fourth Ann. Rep. Fishery Ed. for Scot., 1886). 

 H. B. = J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., and T. E. Buckley, B.A., 



F.Z.S., Vertebrate fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides, 1892 (separate 



reprint). 

 G.=Dr. A. C. L. G. GUnther, F.E.S., "Rep. on fishes obtained by Sir 



John Murray on N. W. coast of Scotland" (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 



vol. xv., 1888). 



F. S. G. = Fishery Statistics of the Scottish Fishery Bd. S. S. ' Garland.' 

 M.= Records of the S. Y. 'Medusa,' obtained by Sir John Murray. 

 R. = Fishery-records of the late David Robertson, LL.D.,F. G. S.,Millport. 

 S.=Thos. Scott, F.L.S., (a) "Fishes of L. Fyne" (Fifteenth Ann. Rep. Fishery 



Bd. for Scot., Pt. iii., 1897). 

 (b) " Fishes of the F. of Clyde ' : (Eighteenth Ann. Rep. Fishery Bd. for 



Scot., 1900). 



SUB-CLASS TELEOSTEI. 



ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Fam. Percidae. 



Perca fluviatilis, Lin. Perch ; c. low-lying lakes, ponds, and sluggish 



streams ; usually absent from high-lying waters. 

 Polyprion americanum (Block.). Stone Basse. One taken years ago at 



mouth of Clyde (Aflalo), off L. Cumbrae 1870 (H. B., p. 184). 



Fam. Mullidae. 



Mullus barbatus, Lin. Surmullet, Red Mullet. One L. Fyne (Capt- 

 Campbell of Inverneil, H. B., p. 185). 



