174 THE MARINE AND FRESH-WATER FISHES. 



Fam. Sparidae. 



Spams centrodontus, De la Roche. Common Sea-bream. Cumbrae, one 

 (M. P. Bell R. in Proc. N. H. S. Glasg., vol. i., p. 119), E. L. Tarbert, 1886 

 one (S.). 



Fam. Cottidae. 



Cottus gobio, Lin. Miller's Thumb. Upper Kelvin and tributaries ; Carmel 

 Water, Ayrshire (H. A. Woodburn) ; Dobbs Burn, nr. Paisley (J. M. B. 



Taylor). 



C. scorpius, Lin. Sea Scorpion. Gen. dist., esp. inshore, 

 var. groenlandica. Occasionally obtained. 



C. bubalis, Euphr. Father Lasher. Mull of Kintyre, 60 f. ; Sd. of Sanda, 

 20 f. (G.) ; Little Harbour ; off Inveraray, L. Fyne (F. S. G.). 



C. lilljeborgii, Coll. Norway Bullhead. Off Ardrossan, 15-30 f. ; Sd. of 

 Sanda, 20 f. (G.). 



Trigla lineata, Gfmel. Streaked Gurnard. E. L. Tarbert, not c. (B. & S.) ; 

 r. (F. S. G.). 



T. pini, Block. Bed Gurnard. Occasionally, trawl (F. S. G.) lower estuary. 



T. lucerna, Lin. Sapphirine Gurnard. Ballantrae, in Salmon nets (Thomp- 

 son) (Day, vol. i., p. 62). 



T. gurnardus, Lin. Grey Gurnard ; c., and gen. dist., esp. during summer. 



Triglops murrayi, Gilnther Murray's Triglops. Mull of Kintyre, 64 f. ; 

 off Sanda I., 35 f. (G.) ; nr. Sanda, one in Shrimp- trawl (F. S. G., 11/96). 



Fam. Cataphracti. 



Agonus cataphractus (Lin.). Pogge. Ardrishaig (Dr. Scouler) ; L. Fyne 

 and Clyde estuary occasionally (F. S. G.). 



Fam. Pediculati. 



Lophius piscatorius, Lin. Angler-fish. Freq. (F. S. G.), esp. in deep 

 water ; sometimes 45 in. long. 



Fam. Trachinidae. 



[Trachinus vipera, Cuv. Lesser Weaver. Arran, Landsborough's Nat. 

 Hist. Arran (1875), p. 318.] 



Fam. Scombridae. 

 Scomber scombrus, Lin. Mackerel. L. Fyne ; Clyde estuary ; sometimes 



in L. Long and L. Goil. 

 Orcynus thynnus (Lin.). Tunny. One, 9 ft. long, in Gareloch nearly opposite 



Greenock, 7/31, (Day). One weighing 460 Ibs., at Inveraray in 1769, 



(Pennant, ZooL, vol. iii., p. 268). 



[Euthynnus pelamis, Lin. Bonito. One in Clyde, July, 1832, (Scouler).] 

 Sarda pelamis (Briin.). Belted Bonito. One, 1859, now in Hunterian 



Museum. 



Fam. Coryphaenidae. 



Brama rail (Block.). Ray's Sea-bream. Specimen in Hunterian Museum, 

 said to have been taken nr. Ayr, (H. B., p. 188). 



Lampris pelagicus (Gunn.). Opah or King-fish. One taken in Clyde in 1833, 

 (Scouler). One in 1864, in Hunterian Museum. One in L. Fyne early 

 in 1899, (Late Duke of Argyll, in letter to Rev. G. A. Frank Knight). ' 



Fam. Cyttidae. 



Zeus faber, Lin. John Dory. Off Rothesay, (H. B., p. 187) ; L. Fyne, 

 (B. & S.) ; Kilbrannan Sd., in Shrimp-trawl, (F. S. G.). 



Fam. Gobiidae. 



Gobius flavescens, Fabr. Two-spotted Goby. L, Fyne (Scouler); amongst 

 zostera, E. L. Tarbert, (B. &S.); Clyde ; L. Fyne various parts (F.S.G.). 



