DUBLIIV NATITKAL HI8T0BT SOCIETY. 61 



RECOSD OF THE OCCTTBREKCE OF THE BEBOTLT AFD OBEBKLAKD BULLHSAD 

 ON THE JKISH COAST. BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, M. B. I. A., HONOBABT 

 SECllETAHY. 



1. Beegylt, oe Nobway Haddock (SebasUt Norvegieut). 



The first record of this addition to the ichthyology of Ireland was made 

 by Mr. Andrews, Honorary Secretary, at a meeting of the Society held 

 on the 4th of May, 1849. Two fine specimens of the fish were taken in 

 the month of March last, on the long lines set for ling, in deep water, 

 off the Wild Bank, Dingle Bay, and brought in by canoe-men in the 

 employment of the Royal Irish Fisheries Company. 



Several specimens have since been taken in the same bay, and in the 

 summer of 1850 two were taken, in eighty-one fathoms, off the Blasket 

 Islands, coast of Kerry, on long lines set for cod, one of which Mr. An- 

 drews had for some hours alive in a tub of sea- water. 



The Sebastes is an exceedingly active fish, and apparently of pug- 

 nacious habits. In the recent state its colour is very vivid, of a beautifnl 

 Vermillion, the shades dark on the back, assuming a b'ghter tinge on the 

 sides, and passing into a silvery white on the belly. The pectoral fins 

 are large, of a bright red colour, as is also the caudal fin, the fins ter- 

 minating in filaments. The eyes were very brilliant, particularly large 

 and prominent. It is nearly connected with the Serrani in the ovate 

 body, obtuse head, large eyes, and formation of the jaw, — the jaws, 

 head, and body being covered with rough scales. 



The Bergylt is a northern fish, and inhabits deep water, and is known 

 as the Norway Haddock and Norwegian Carp. In the Feroe Islands it 

 is very frequently taken, in deep water, when fishing for cod, where it 

 it is termed Kongafisshur and the Red Perch {Perca Norvegica). It is 

 also called in Feroese Ratf-fisshur, from its red colour. The Sebastes, 

 although known to the Shetland fishermen, is a fish of rare occurrence 

 in British ichthyology, and but few authentic specimens are recorded as 

 British. 



2. Greenland Bullhead (Coitus Gromlandieus). 



"Was taken in Dingle Harbour, county of Kerry, in the month of 

 February, 1850, when drawing a seine for sand smelts. Its beautiful 

 and vivid colouring attracted the attention of Mr. B. Hilliard, Agent to 

 the Royal Irish Fisheries Company, who, presuming it to be of rare 

 occurrence, at once forwarded it to Mr. Andrews, the Manager of the 

 Company. 



The Coitus Gromlandieus is admirably described in Richardson's 

 "Zoology of British America," known as the Greenland Bullhead, — 

 the Kaniock and Kanininock of the Greenlanders. The colours of the 

 specimen here figured were extremely beautiful, — the shades of the head 

 Vandyke brown, the deeper umber beautifully glazed over with a pinkish 

 or violet tinge, the dorsal and above the lateral line more or less shaded, 



