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taken off Troup Head, Banffshire (J. Smith, Zool. p. 3057). Buckland mentions 

 one taken at Elgin. March 2nd, 1870, one 11 ft. 2 in. long was captured at 

 Aberdeen, and a second, December, 1880, ]4 ft. long and 6| ft. in girth : one of 

 these is now in the Aberdeen University Museum ; on April 15th, 1882, a female, 

 14| ft. long, was secured at the same place, the jaws of which were sent to me by 

 Mr. Sim : it is occasionally caught off St. Andrew's Bay, near the estuary of the 

 Forth (Mcintosh) : May 5th, 1859, one 10 ft. long was taken in the Firth of 

 Forth, entangled on a fishing-line (R. Brown, Zool. 1860, p. 6861); in 1874 a 

 female was captured near the Bass Rock (Turner) ; and on April 12th, 1882, one 

 7\ ft. long was taken in or near the Firth of Forth and shown at the Edinburgh 

 Fisheries Exhibition. A female Gh ft. long was taken oft' Berwick, March 21st, 

 1877, and is now in the museum of that town (A. Brotherston). In April, 1840, 

 one was captured off the Durham coast, and is now in the Durham Museum 

 (J. Hutchinson). In 1868 one was taken at Newbiggin, and is in the Newcastle 

 Museum, and in February, 1876, a second was captured at the same place (Wright, 

 Trans. North, and Durh. Nat. Hist. Soc. iii, p. 340) ; two were captured off Scar- 

 borough in 1878 and sent to Oxford (Fauna of Yorkshire). In 1880, on March 

 4th, one, now in the museum, was taken at Whitby (Stephenson), and on April 6th, 

 1881, another. An immature specimen, caught at Skerringham, is in the Norwich 

 Museum (Lowe). On February 28th, 1875, a male 12-*- ft. long was received from 

 off Kessingland, Suffolk (T. Southwell, Zool. 1875, p. 4424). Mr. Cordeaux 

 recorded two from the Dogger Bank in February, 1866, neither being under 12 or 

 14 ft. in length, a quantity of cod and ling were found in their stomachs (Zool. 

 p. 230). In Ireland Dr. Ball repoi^ted a specimen taken at Youghal which he 

 considered to be this species, but Mr. More informs me that it is not. 



The specimen figured is about 14^ ft. long, and in the National collection. It 

 is said to attain to 25 ft. in length. 



