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lower jaw being so slightly developed, taken in connection 

 with the internal appearance of both sexes, lead to the con- 

 clusion that they would not have bred for another year. In 

 the stomach of one was a sand eel (Ammodytes Lanced) three 

 inches long, and in another a large piece of the marine plant 

 (Ceramium rvbnun). 



Gadus Call a hi as, Linn. Dorse. — An examination of 

 the fishes before mentioned as taken on the coast of Cork and 

 forwarded for my inspection by Mr. R. Ball, enables me to 

 restore this species with certainty to the place it once held in 

 the British Fauna. Two small specimens thus received are 

 in length respectively 3^ and 6 inches ; in the latter the num- 

 ber of fin rays are D. 14, 18, 18 ; A. 20, 17 ; P. 18 ; V. 6 ; 

 C. 24. — Br. 7« In both individuals the 1st and 2nd rays of 

 the ventral fin are produced in slender filaments, of which the 

 second is the longer ; eyes invested with a membrane as in 

 G. luscus, &c. ; head to entire length as 1 to 3 in the larger, 

 as 1 to 3^ in the smaller specimen ; no pores visible about the 

 mouth as in G. minutus. In other characters these indivi- 

 duals agree with the G. Callarias as described by Bloch and 

 Nillson. They were taken in sprat nets at Youghal in the 

 autumn of 1834, when a third specimen also occurred. 



Subsequently I had the satisfaction of recognising a G. Cal- 

 larias among some native fishes presented by Mr. Wm. Mar- 

 shall (Memb. Nat. Hist. Society) to the Belfast Museum 

 without regard to species. Upon inquiry, I learned from 

 this gentleman that it had been captured by himself when 

 fishing in the month of June or July about the entrance to 

 Larne Lough, county of Antrim, and using the lug worm 

 [Lumbricus marinus) for bait. Its length is 8 inches. We 

 thus find that the species occurs both on the northern and 

 southern shores of Ireland. 



Gadus minutus, Linn. Poor. — Amongst some fishes taken 

 in a trawl net by Mr. Hyndman in Belfast Bay in the month 

 of September 1835, and kindly preserved for me, are three 

 individuals of this species, which as British has hitherto been 

 known only to the southern coast of England. These speci- 

 mens are under four inches in length ; their fin rays about the 

 number described by Mr. Jenyns, but it may be observed that 



