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great majority in December and January (Fig. 3). Excluding 

 a single specimen from the west coast, they all came from 

 the following areas : Area X, 1 ; XIV, 1 ; XV, 1 ; XVII, 2 ; 

 XVIII, 2; XIX, 1; XX, 1 ; XXIII, 16; XXV, 2 ; XXVIII, 

 3 ; XXIX, 4. That is to say, the great majority were taken 

 off the Aberdeenshire coast and southward thereof, with an 

 occasional straggler from further out to sea and from as far 

 north as Shetland (Fig. 4). The only recorded Scandinavian 



FlG. 4. Distribution of the Spanish Bream, from the Aberdeen Records. 



specimen known to me was got off the Skaw in March 



I873- 1 



Like many other of those fishes whose natural habitat is 



at a distance from our shores, it is apparently capricious in 

 its appearance. We have only one record of its capture 

 since December 1912; and most of our specimens were 

 obtained in the winter of 1910-11. 



A Sea-bream got off Tod Head, close to Aberdeen, in 

 December 1901, was recorded as P. bognrnveo, by Mr George 

 Sim, in A.S.N.H., 1902, p. 221. 



1 Winther, Zool. Dunz'ca, Fiske, p. 15 ; cf. Smitt's Scandinavian 

 Fishes, p. 58. 



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