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Author or Reference. 

 Day, ii., p. 275. 

 A.S.N.H., 1900, p. 213. 



1 goo, p. 213. 



1900, p. 213. 



1910, p. 60. 

 Zoologist, 1 85 1, p 3058. 

 Day, ii., p. 275. 

 A.S.N.H., 1906, p. 57. 

 Day, ii., p. 275. 



Note. The localities iUdicisrd refer to specimens identified as 0. truncatus, 

 the " Short Sun-fish " ; but it is very doubtful indeed whether the form 

 so called is specifically distinct. 



It is well-known that the Sun-fish is a summer migrant 

 to our seas ; and the foregoing lists confirm and illustrate 

 our common knowledge. 



Let us arrange the whole number of specimens here 

 recorded according to the several months, as follows : 



Here we have, apparently, a single well-marked maximum in 

 late summer or autumn. But the whole story is not here, 

 and we may learn at least a little more by a rough 

 geographical analysis of the same figures. Let us divide 

 them into two groups, which shall broadly consist of the 

 captures in the south and south-west, and of those in the 

 north and east ; and let us add to these a similar tabulation 

 of the recorded occurrences in Scandinavia and in Iceland. 

 These last particulars I have mostly drawn from a recent 

 paper by Dr A. C. Johansen, on " The Transport of the 

 Sun-fish by Ocean-currents in the North European Waters." 1 



1 Vidensk. Meddel. fra Dansk Naturh. Foren., Bd. 67, 191 5. The 

 Norwegian records are from Collett, the Icelandic from Saemundsson's 

 Oversigt over Islands Fiske, 1908, p. 108, and the Danish from 

 material, hiiherto unpublished, in Dr Johansen's hands. I have added 

 to his list two records from near Bergen, both in September (1S90, 

 1895), given by Grieg {Ichthyolog. Notiser, ii., 1894-5, p. 11), and 

 apparently not included by Collett ; and one more, also recorded by 

 Grieg, from Myking, December 1906 {ibid., hi., 191 r, p. 32). 



