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viz. : — Idothea haltica, pelagica, and emarginata^ and also Gammarus 

 locusta. The stomachs of eleven specimens were obtained on the 23rd, 

 and five of these contained only a little digested matter ; one was full of 

 small Annelids, with the addition of a Crangon vulgaris, while the food 

 contained in the other live was composed of Annelids and Amphipods 

 {Gammarus (1) locusta chiefly). 



A small Flounder from Annan, collected on April 30th, 1900, and 

 measuring slightly over 13 centimetres, had its stomach and intestines 

 filled with Corophium grossipes. Two other specimens, somewhat larger 

 (about 17 to 19| cm.), from the same place, and collected at the same 

 time as the last, had numerous fragments of TeUina baltica and a few 

 small Cardium sp. in their stomachs. 



In the stomachs of several of the Flounders obtained at various times 

 from the salmon fishers at the Bay of Nigg, small Portmms {P. liolsafus, 

 jun.), Idothea emarginata, Idothea jyelagica, Paratylus swammerdami, 

 and Amathilla homari were observed. The names of the different species 

 are given in the Table : — 



Species Found in the Stomachs of Flounders. 



Black Sole. Solea vidgaris, Quen. 



The following are notes of the contents of twenty-five stomachs of 

 Solea vulgaris examined at different times ; all the specimens, with the 

 exception of four from the Clyde, were from Annan. The Annan speci- 

 mens were of small size, ranging from 6| to 18 centimetres in length; 

 the four from the Clyde were larger, and measured 24|- to 32 centimetres. 

 The food in the stomachs of the Clyde specimens, so far as it could be 

 identified, consisted of Annelids and lammellibranch Mollusca. The 

 food of the Annan specimens was similarly composed of Annelids, but 

 there were also a few Crustaceans observed, such as Corophium grossipes, 

 a specimen of Hyperia (?) galha, a few Copepoda {gen. et sp- '?), and a few 

 Ostracoda (Oythere sp.), but the specimens were not in very good 

 preservation. 



Hbbridean Smelt. Argentina sj^hyrcena, L. 



Twenty-four specimens of the Hebridean Smelt (or Argentine), 

 collected fifty miles to the eastward of Fair Island on October 19th, 

 1900, were examined on the 26th of the same month. The lengths of 

 the specimens ranged from 15 to 21 centimetres. Annelids appeared to 

 form the principal part of the food of these specimens, but the smaller 

 Crustacea were also fairly well represented, and the following Molluscan 

 species were observed : — TeUina 2J'>'ismatira (once), Philine scahra (in 



