of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 221 
Mugil chelo, Cuvier. 
A Grey Mullet about 143 inches in length, captured by the salmon 
fishers at the Bay of Nigg on March 14th, 1902, and which was kindly 
handed over to the Laboratory for examination. It belonged to the same 
species as those obtained in the Bay last year, viz. Mugil chelo. There 
- was some food in the stomach of this specimen, but it was too much 
igested for satisfactory identification. 
Another specimen, captured on the 11th of June, had also in its stomach 
very little food that cou!d be identified, the only organisms satisfactorily 
distinguished were one or two Yemora longicornis and a number of 
specimens of the Cypris stage of Balanus sp. 
Labrus mixtus, Lin. 
A specimen 124 inches in length was captured 15 miles north-east from 
Tiumpan Head, Lewis, in 70 fathoms, in May 1902, and sent to the 
Laboratory at the Bay of Nigg for examination. The stomach cf this 
specimen contained nothing perfect enough for identification, but in the 
intestines were found the vertebre of fishes, fragments of molluscan 
shells, and some small rounded stones. 
Several specimens of Clavella labracis, v. Beneden, were obtained on 
the gills of this Labrus. 
Gadus luscus, Lin. 
Several specimens of the Whiting Pout, varying in length from 7? to 
112 inches and captured off Aberdeen in January last year, appear to have 
been feeding chiefly on Crustaceans. The food found in the stomach of 
the smallest specimen (7? in.) consisted of the remains of Annelids, 
belonging apparently to the Chetopode, and of fragments of Schizopoda 
and Amphidoda, but the only organism that eould be satisfactorily 
identified was a male specimen of Hrichthonius hunteri (Spence Bate). 
A Whiting Pout 94 inches in length had in its stomach four small 
Cephalopods (Rossia? macrosoma, Delle Chiage), and a specimen of 
Pandalus montagui, Leach. In the stomach of another 10 inches long 
were the fragments of what appeared to be Spirontocarts securifrons, 
Norman. Fragments of what looked like Schistomysis inermis were 
observed ia the stomach of another 103 inches in length; while in the 
stomach of the largest of these Whiting Pouts were found Crangon 
allmannt, Kinahan, Pandalus montagui, Leach, and Pandalina 
brevirostris (Rathke)—the length of the fish was 114 inches. 
Gadus esmarkit, Nilsson. 
A considerable number of Norway Pouts captured in the North Sea 
have been examined, but as there was a good deal of similarity in the 
contents of their stomachs, only a few are particularised here. Small 
Crustaceans were largely represented amongst the contents of their 
stomachs, bnt Schizopods, Parathemisto and pelagic Copepods were more 
frequently observed than other members of that group, as shown by the 
following sample of the fishes, which ranged in length from about 54 to 
6f inches. 
