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The latter species is not known from less depths than 

 250 fathoms, or even more, and its principal haunts are 

 below 500 fathoms. The former is also a deep-water fish, 

 from 200 to 1200 fathoms. Neither, therefore, is likely to 

 be caught by our fishermen ; and the records (as we shall now 

 see) of our own Chimseras so hang together that we have no 

 reason to suspect that they have to do with more than a 

 single, and that the common species. 



Our market observations go back to 1909, with a few 

 earlier and more scattered ones ; and the following is a list 

 of our records of Chimaera : 



Date. 



Feb. 

 July 



1902 

 1902 



No. of 

 Fish. 



I 



I 



Locality. 



23 m. E.S.E. of Aberdeen 



100 m. N. by E. from Ronaldshay 



Statistical 

 Area. 



XXIII 



IX 



(The above recorded by Dr Fulton, in Scottish Fishery Board's 

 Report, xxi. (pt. iii.), 1902, p. 228.) 



Iceland ..... 



30 m. N. by W. of Noup Head (hooked) 



180 m. E.N.E. of Aberdeen 



194 in. E.N.E. of Aberdeen 



180 m. E.N.E. of Aberdeen 



180 m. E.N.E. of Aberdeen 



Iceland .... 



80 m. N. by W. from Hoy (hooked) 



Viking Bank 



180 m. N.E. by E., \ E. from Aberdeen 



25 m. N.N.W. from Flannan Isles (hooked) 



36 m. N.W. by N. from Foula (hooked) 



23 and 40 m. N.W. by W. from Butt of Lewes 



40 m. N.W. from Rona's Hill . 



18 m. N. from Flannan Isles . 



no m. E.N.E. from Aberdeen . 



235 m. N.E. from Buchanness. 



30 m. W.N.W. from Flannan Isles 



205 m. E. by N. \ N. from Aberdeen 



20 m. N.W. from Flugga 



5 m. W. from Barra Head 



Iceland .... 



18 m. N.W. from Sule Skerry . 



45 m. W.N.W. from Butt of Lewes 



80 m W.N.W. from Old Man of Hoy 



25 m. N.W. from Sule Skerry . 



No locality 



160 m. E.N.E. from Aberdeen . 



220 m. N.E. 2 E. from Aberdeen 



235 m. N.E., northerly from Buchanness 



5 m. N. from Rona 



17 m. W.N.W. from Stack Skerry 



27 m. N.E. by E. from St Kilda 



44 m. W. by N. from Barra Head 



20 m. N.E. from Flugga 



XIII 

 XVI 

 XVI 

 XVI 

 XVI 



C 

 XII 



XV 



K 



IX 



K 



IX 



K 

 XIX 



XI 



R 

 XX 



X 



L 



K 

 K 

 C 

 J 



xi'x 



XI 

 XI 



c 

 c 



S 

 T 

 VI 



