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neighbourhood of the ioo-fathom line, and some are well 

 beyond it. In many cases our deep-sea liners fish consider- 

 ably beyond that limit ; in other words, they go somewhat 

 farther out than our Scottish trawlers are for the most part 

 accustomed to do. 



There are plenty of records of the King-fish in British 

 seas, beginning with a specimen caught at South Oueensferry, 

 and figured by Sir Robert Sibbald in 1664, in his Scotia 

 Illustrata. I have collected the following few particulars, 

 chiefly from the Zoologist, and from the ordinary text- 

 books : 



Reference. 

 Day, i., p. 120. 

 Zoologist, 1852, p. 3459. 



1865, 9698. 

 Yarrell, ii., p. 266. 



Zoologist, 1844, p. 679. 



Yarrell, ii., p. 266. 



A.S.N.H., 1900, p. 208. 



Yarrell, ii., p. 266. 



Day, p. 119 



A.M.N.H., viii., 1861, p. 192. 



I) 1) !) 



Yarrell, ii., p. 265. 

 p. 266. 

 A.S.N. H., 1901, p. 50. 

 Yarrell, ii., p. 266. 

 A.S.N.H., 1900, p. 208. 

 Zoologist, 1851, p. 3010. 

 Day, p. 120. 



Of these twenty dated records, twelve occurred between 

 June and August, seven of them in July, and the five 

 records from the Irish coast all occurred between June and 

 October. Five of the dated captures occurred in the winter 

 months (or from November to March), and all of these were 

 from our eastern coasts, that is to say from the North Sea ; 

 with these, Dr Fulton's record from Aberdeen in November 

 1902 so far agrees. We see accordingly, that though the 

 summer maximum of Lampris in our seas is unmistakable, 

 yet its occurrence in the North Sea in winter time is not very 

 rare, and is at least by no means exceptional (Fig. 2). It 

 would look as though all these inshore captures, during the 

 winter months, might be regarded as of fish which had 



