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coasts show, as is naturally to be expected, mainly the same as our list of species. Some 
of our species have a very wide range through the seas of the world. 
The leading works upon British Fishes, or upon sections of the subject, which we 
have made use of, and from which we have drawn some of our records, are :—Yarrell’s 
‘‘History of British Fishes,” (1836,) Couch’s ‘‘ Fishes of the British Isles,” (1865,) and 
Day’s more recent work ‘‘ The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland,” (1884); then, Parnell’s 
“Fishes of the District of the Forth,” (1838), McIntosh’s Marine Invertebrates and 
Fishes of St. Andrews, (1875), Byerley’s ‘‘Fauna of Liverpool,” (1854), and numerous 
smaller papers and lists by Eyton, Walker, Kermode, T. Scott, Brook, Fulton, Holt, 
Giinther, Cunningham, and others, in the ‘* Zoologist,” the ‘‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History,” and other Natural History Journals, and in the publications of the Fishery Board 
for Scotland, and the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth. We have also consulted 
the recent works by McIntosh and Masterman, on ‘‘ Life Histories of the British Marine 
Food Fishes”; by McIntosh, in the ‘‘Resources of the Sea”; and by Cunningham, on 
‘Marketable Marine Fishes of the British Islands.” 
Of those works which deal with the whole range of the subject, the most com- 
plete, the most authoritative, and the most generally useful, is Day’s ‘‘ Fishes of Great 
Britain.” This work gives a description and a figure of every species of fish, marketable 
or not. To have added descriptions and figures to the present memoir, would have 
unduly increased its size, and is quite unnecessary, in most cases, when we have Day’s 
work to consult. We have therefore considered it useful to place after the name of 
each species of fish in the following list, a reference to the page and to the plate 
where that fish will be found in Day’s ‘British Fishes.” In some few cases where 
the species is not described in Day’s work, or where some other figure is a more 
adequate representation, we have given another reference, our object being to give, for the 
benefit of those who require it, a reference in the case of each species to some good 
figure and description of that fish. 
As this is a local list, mainly intended to be used locally, we think it desirable to 
note, on the next line after the reference to Day’s work, whether or not the species 
is represented in the collection of local fishes in the Museum of the Zoological Depart- 
ment of University College, Liverpool. We also give the chief local names for each 
well-known species. 
