134 SQUAMMIPENNES. 



Duliamcl obtained his specimen from Provence : the species 

 is said to be common in the Mediterranean. Willughby has 

 given a figure of this fish, tab. V. 12, which he calls Brama 

 marina cauda forcipata ; and it is described in the Appendix 

 to his Natural History of Fishes, page 17, from a specimen 

 obtained, on the 18th of September 1681, in Middlesburgh 

 Marsh, near the mouth of the Tecs, having been left there 

 on the sands by the retiring tide. Bloch has figured and 

 described it, as quoted in the synonym es at the head of this 

 subject. 



This fish cannot certainly be so rare or so little known 

 generally as various authors have related. Colonel Montagu 

 has recorded one example taken in Devonshire, and another 

 at Swansea : Mr. Couch has obtained one or two, if not more, 

 in Cornwall. It has been taken at Belfast, where it is called 

 Henfish ; and a correspondent in Mr. Loudon's Magazine of 

 Natural History, vol. vi. p. 529, says this fish is not uncom- 

 mon on the west coast of Scotland : he had himself seen 

 several individuals from the Frith of Clyde and from the 

 Argyleshire coast. 



I may farther state, that there are two specimens in the 

 British Museum, one in the collection of the Zoological So- 

 ciety, and probably others in London. In 1828, a specimen 

 was taken on the coast of Normandy ; another at Stockton- 

 upon-Tees in 1821 the spot of its first recorded occurrence 

 in England in 1681 ; it has been taken in Berwick Bay, 

 and Mr. Neill has recorded that several have been taken in 

 the Frith of Forth ; it has also been taken at St. AndrewV 



In the autumn of 1834, I saw no less than nine examples 

 of Brama Raii in the museums of Edinburgh, Ncwcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, and York ; including, besides, but two private 

 collections. 



Ray's Bream is mentioned in Nilsson's Prodromus, which 

 has been quoted before, as occurring on the coast of Norway; 



