228 Part TI. —Twenty-first Annual Report 
VII.—_ICHTHYOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By Dr. T. Wemyss Furron. 
CONTENTS. 
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Sturgeon, 2h ele : é : i i \ “998 
Chimera monstrosa, — - : : 3 28 - . 298 
King-fish, = : : - : z 2 . 998 
Muller’s Topknot, - - - - - - - | 229 
Ballan Wrasse, - - : - : : : - 929 
Bass, z : : : : L E : _ 999 
Mutilated Plaice : - - - : -- 1229 
Jommon Sole, - - : - . - ee =o 229 
Norway Lobster, : = - : : 2 - 999 
The Sexes among Rays, - - - a Ae = 999 
STURGEON. 
Sturgeons are occasionally caught in the trawl-net and brought to 
market, and they are as a rule taken near the land in moderate depths of 
water ; most of those got last year were captured off the coast of Aber- 
dezn. On 27th January one weighing 23 cwts. was caught fifty miles 
E.N.E. from Aberdeen, about thirty miles east from Peterhead, where 
the water, on the chart, is about sixty fathoms. Another was secured 
on 3rd February,'which weighed 98 pounds, twenty-four miles S.E. 4 E., 
in about forty fathoms. A third on 27th May 170 miles N.E. by E. from 
Aberdeen, in from sixty-five to seventy fathoms, nearly midway between 
the Orkneys and Norway, weighed three cwts, and was nine feet long by 
three-and-a-half feet in girth; it sold for £8 2s. Another sturgeon, a 
little shorter, measuring eight feet long, by three feet one inch in girth, 
weighed two cwts., and was caught on 29th July eighteen miles E.S.E. 
from Aberdeen. A fifth was taken on 20th December fourteen miles 
E.N.E. from Aberdeen, in from thirty to forty fathoms ; it was a small 
specimen, weighing only forty-three pounds. A sixth was taken on 22nd 
December, twelve miles 8. 3 E. from Girdleness, Aberdeen, in ¢hirty- 
five fathoms, It weighed seventy-seven pounds, and sold for £3 8s. 
The localities are indicated on the chart (Plate I., S 1-S 6). 
CHIMERA, 
Specimens of this form are not very uncommon in the Fish-market. 
One was taken on 15th February, twenty-three miles east-south-east of 
Aberdeen, in about forty fathoms, and another by a liner, on 5th July, 
one hundred miles north and by east from North Ronaldshay, Orkney 
Islands, in deep water. 
Krine-riso (Lampris luna). 
Specimens of this species are also occasionally brought in by the 
liners working to the westwards of the Shetland and Orkney Isles. 
On 7th June one was caught eighty miles N. by W. from Hoy, 
Orkneys ; on 5th July two were taken one hundred miles N. and by E, 
from North Ronaldshay ; and on 22nd August, another, about 201 
