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Three males and 3 females were got in November, 2 males east of the Orkneys, 

 at 66 and 77 miles to the south and west, and the other male and 1 female in the 

 Moray Firth, south-east of Noss Head, at 105 and 106 miles to the south and west ; 

 another female was taken 28 miles to the south and west, near Fair Isle, and the 

 third to the south-east, offshore, at a distance of 90 miles. A female was found in 

 December, in the same region as the last, 85 miles to the south and east. 



Thus, in this quarter, 9, or 21*4 per cent., were recovered, 6 (66-6 per cent.) 

 to the south and west, 2 to the south and east, and 1 to the north and west. 



Second Quarter. — In January 1912, 2 males and 2 females were got, 1 female 23 

 miles to the south and west, near Fair Isle, and 1 to the south and east, in the same 

 locality as the 2 above referred to, at a distance of 84 miles ; 1 of the males was 

 taken south-east of Noss Head, in the Moray Firth, at 105 miles to the south and 

 west, and the other south-east of Aberdeen, 164 miles to the south and west. A 

 male and a female were taken in Februar}^ the male 83 miles to the west, 4 miles 

 off Noup Head, Orkney, and the female near Clyth Ness, in the Moray Firth, at a 

 distance of 119 miles. Two males and 2 females were recaptured in March, a male 

 and a female at the Shetlands, the female off Ronasvoe, at a distance of 81 miles, 

 and the male 1 mile west of Cheynies Isles, on the south-west coast of the Shetlands, 

 at a distance of 46 miles ; the other female was taken off Buchanness, 125 miles 

 to the south and west, and the other male is represented as having been caught 

 at the Sylt Outer Ground, off the coast of Schleswig, 397 miles to the south and 

 east ; the fish was landed at Hamburg by a German trawler, and the average rate 

 of movement works out at 27 "6 miles per 10 days. 



In this quarter, therefore, 10 were taken, or 23"8 per cent., 5 (50 per cent.) to 

 the south and west, 2 each to the north and west and south and east, and 1 to the 

 west. 



Third Quarter.— A female was taken in April, in the Moray Firth, close to Clyth 

 Ness, at a distance of 113 miles to the south and west. In May, 2 males and 3 

 females were recaptured, 1 of the males 46 miles to the north and west, near Foula, 

 and all the others to the south and west, 2 females off Duncansby Head, 92 and 95 

 miles distant, and 2, a male and a female, off Noss Head, in the Moray Firth, at 98 

 and 101 miles distant. In June, a female was recaptured to the east of the Orkneys, 

 at a distance of 62 miles to the south and west. 



In this quarter, then, 7, or 16*7 per cent., were found, 6 (85"7 per cent.) to the 

 south and west, and 1 to the north and west. 



Fourth Quarter. — A female was recaptured in July, 28 miles to the south and 

 west, south-east of Fair Isle. In August, a female was got to tlie east of the Orkneys, 

 63 miles to the south and west, and in September, 3 females, 2 to the south and 

 west, at 31 and 58 miles, and the third on the east side of the Shetlands, to the 

 north, off Balta, 63 miles to the north and east. 



In the fourth quarter, therefore, 5, or 11-9 per cent., were taken, 4 (80 per cent.) 

 to the south and west, and 1 to the north and east. 



In the 12 months, 31 of the marked plaice, or 73-8 per cent., were taken, 21 

 (67*7 per cent.) to the south and west, 4 each to the north and w^est and south and 

 east, and 1 each to the north and east and the west. 



Of the remaining fish, 4 were recovered in the remaining months of 1912, 6 in 

 1913, and 1 in 1914. 



In October 1912, a female was landed at Aberdeen, which was described as 

 having been captured 120 miles N.E. J E. from Grimsby (55° 24' N. ; 1° 17' E.), 

 267 miles to the south and west, the mean rate of movement in this case being 7 '2 

 miles per 10 days. A male and 2 females were taken in November 1912, the male 

 south and east of Fair Isle, 31 miles to the south and west, 1 female south and east 

 of Noss Head, in the Moray Firth, 105 miles to the south and west, and the other 

 on the west coast at Loch Laxford, 170 miles to the westwards. 



Two females were taken in March 1913, both to the south and west, 1 east of the 

 Orkneys, 68 miles distant, and the other 2 miles off Cullen, on the south coast of the 

 Moray Firth, at a distance of 139 miles. A male was taken in April, off Burghead, 

 Moray Firth, 145 miles to the south and west ; in May, a female east of the Orkneys, 

 at 74 miles to the south and west ; in June, 1 of unloiown sex, off St. Abb's Head, 

 230 miles to the south and west ; and in December, another of unknown sex, off 

 Holburn Head, on the north coast of Scotland, at an unspecified position. 



