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INDEX 



mackerel, 133; on the spawning 

 of the boar-fish, 137; on the 

 spawning of the dory, 139 ; on the 

 spawning of pilchard, 199; on 

 herring shoals, 204 ; on the egg of 

 the pilchard, 205 ; on the former 

 abundance of bonitoes, 283 ; on 

 the remora, 283 ; sends a Ray's 

 bream to the Plymouth Laboratory, 

 285 ; his work, 286 ; on the Norway 

 pout, 293 

 Dusky perch, 271, 275 

 „ skulpin, 162 



Eagle Clarke, Mr., on Murray's 

 gurnard, 276 ; on the, four-bearded 

 rockling, 264 



Eagle-ray, 2 1 , 40, 112 



Ear of fishes, 20, 104 



Ear-stones, 20 



Echcncis, 10, 271 



Echinorhinus, 86, 100 



Eddystone, Muraena trawled near the, 

 296 



Eel, 22 



Egg-case of sharks and rays, 39 



Eggs of fishes, 38-48 



Ehrenbaum on the shad, 209 



Elbe, Shad in the, 209 



Elboeuf, Shad-hatchery at, 210 



Electric force in fishes, 109 



Elie, Sand-eel fishery at, 267 



tturascicholus, 201, 207 



Endemic fishes, 37 



Engraiilis, 201, 207 



eqttes, 272, 295 



erytltrinus, 114, 122, 125 



csmarkii, 35 f.n., 272, 293, 294 



Ewart, Professor Cossar, on rigor 

 mortis in fish, 251 ; on the electric 

 organ of the skate, 109 f.n.; on 

 the spawn of herring, 199 



Exe, Red band-fish in the, 289 



Exocccius, 271, 284 



exoleius, 190, 196 



Eye of fishes, 17, 19 



faber, 129, 138 



Falmouth, Lmmnis caught near, 286 ; 



Ray's bream near, 285 ; shanny 



near, 168; spotted dragonet near, 



163 

 " False gills," 22 

 Fame Islands, Banks' oar-fish in the, 



290 

 Farnell, Mr., his trawling experiments 



in Australia, 38 

 Father-lasher, 48, 145, 146 

 ferox, 35 



Ficrasfer, 35, 272, 294 

 Fifteen-spined stickleback, 155, 172 

 File-fish, 36, 272 

 Fins, I, 2, 3, 5, 12, 13 

 finta, 201, 208 

 Firth of Clyde, Plaice spawning in the, 



47 ; bonito in, 283 

 Firth of Forth, Thresher in the, 89 ; 



Blue shark in the, 94 ; sprat 



spawning in the, 200, 206 ; poor 



cod spawning in, 257; fishes of 



the, 264 f.n. ; four-bearded rockling 



in the, 264 ; sand-eels in the, 267 ; 



Murray's gurnard in the, 276 j 



bonito in the, 283 

 Fish, Definition of a, I 

 Fisheries, Our, 53-83 

 Fishes and Fisheries of the Irish Sea 



(Herdman and Dawson), quoted, 



75. '38, 159. 232, 238, 244, 293 

 Fishes, Living and Fossil (Basiiford 



Dean), quoted, 6, 12, 17, 125, 135, 



195, 242, 295 

 Fishes of brackish water and the deep 



sea (Giinther's definition), 33 

 " Fishes," So-called, 2 

 Five-bearded rockling, 245, 262 

 Flamborough Head, Nilsson's goby 



caught off, 157 

 Flat-fishes, 6j io, 18, 23, 30, 32, 34, 36, 



46, 51, 55, 211-241, 307 

 flavescens, 155, 159 

 " Fleet " of nets, 66 

 flesiis, 215, 222 

 Floating eggs, 38 

 Floating timber. Fish associated with, 



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