TE AINEN oe 1S 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
(F , cecncscevseseaces per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circdm vitreos considite fontes : 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic earpite flores : 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, reeurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ecl, i, 
No. 19. JULY 1849. 
1.—Account of a Ribbon Fish (Gymnetrus) taken off the coast of 
Northumberland. By Atpany Hancock and Dennis Eu- 
BLETON, M.D.* 
[ With two Plates. ] 
ON the 26th of March, 1849, a fine specimen of a species of 
Gymnetrus, or Ribbon Fish, was captured by Bartholomew Taylor 
and his two sons, the crew of a fishing coble belonging to Cul- 
lercoats. It was found at about six miles from shore, and in 
from twenty to thirty fathoms water. The men having started 
from their fishing ground to return homewards, observed at a 
little distance what appeared to be broken water ; the old man 
being struck with such a novelty directed his lads to pull towards 
it; on nearing the spot they perceived a large fish lyimg on its 
side on the top of the water. The fish as they approached it 
righted itself, and came with a gentle lateral undulating motion 
towards them, showing its crest and a small portion of the head 
occasionally above water; when it came alongside, one of them 
struck it with his picket—a hook attached to the end ofa small 
stick, and used in landing their fish; on this it made off with a 
vigorous and vertical undulating motion, and disappeared, Taylor 
says, as quick as lightning under the surface. In a short time it 
* Read at the Anniversary Meeting of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field 
Club, April 21, 1849. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. iv. 1 
