22 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



II. 



JOTTINGS FROM MY NOTE-BOOK. 



BY DAVID ROBERTSON, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Loch Fyne Herring. 



[Read 27th November, 18SS.] 



There must be some cause by which to account for 

 the high quality of the herring of Loch Fyne, and 

 not merely a local reputation such as induces every- 

 one to "think his own crow whitest." There are 

 many reasons for believing that all our lochs, 

 fresh and salt, on the West of Scotland, as well as 

 every other sheet of water, have some particular 

 animals in greater abundance than we find in any 

 other place. Some lochs are rich in different species, 

 others have species peculiar to themselves. Dr. .John 

 Murray of the ChaUenger, who has had daily ac- 

 quaintance with the fauna of our lochs in the West 

 of Scotland, summer and Avinter, for the last four 

 years, informs me that Conchcecia elegans is abvmdant 

 in Loch Etive, but has not occurred elseAvhere, with 

 the exception of one or two found on the surface 

 in the Firth of Lome. Eucli(vta norvegica is more 

 abundant in Upper Loch Fyne than in any other 

 loch in the West of Scotland ; but it has never been 

 found in Loch Aber, Loch Sunart, or Loch Carron. 

 Pasiphcva sivado has never been fovmd in Loch Fyne, 

 but is most abundant in Loch Aber and Loch Etive. 

 Nyctiphanes iiorvegica and Boreophausia Raschii. have 

 never been found in Loch Etive or in Loch Aber, 

 but they were so plentiful in Upper Loch Fyne 

 that the Duke of Argyll had over 24 lbs. of Nycti- 

 phanes cooked and served to breakfast. Nephrops 

 norvegica has never been found in Upper Loch Fyne, 

 but is plentiful in other places in the Firth of Clyde. 



