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fishermen called it Pisci d’ Umbra, while others named it 
Pisci Purcu, or pigfish. 
_ Dr. Albert Giinther* has described and given a coloured 
figure of a Schedophilus medusophagus preserved in spirit, 
which he received, in May 1882, from his friend Mr. G. 
Douglas Ogilby with the following notes :— 
“'The fish was obtained during the second week of August 
1878, in a salmon-net, at Portrush, co. Antrim, and came at 
once into my hands, none of the fishermen engaged in the 
fishery having previously met with any thing similar to it, 
It was the most delicate adult fish [ ever handled—so much so 
that, within twenty-four hours of its capture, the skin of the 
belly with the intestines fell off when it was lifted, and it felt 
in the hand quite soft and boneless. Its stomach contained 
herring-fry. [ may mention that a few days subsequently to 
the above date I got a fine specimen of a Tunny, also at Port- 
rush.” Dr. Giinther says that the fish obtained by Mr. 
Ogilby was a fine example of Schedophilus medusophagus, a 
genus which had not previously been met with near the 
British coast. He adds, “ Originally described from speci- 
mens obtained in the Mediterranean, the species was after- 
wards found in the open Atlantic J, and quite recently in the 
South Seat near Samoa. It is evidently a pelagic form 
which, at least in the adult state, descends to some depth. 
The want of firmness in the tissues, well described by Mr. 
Ogilby, seems clearly to indicate it as a deep-sea fish. But 
we have no evidence as to the exact depth to which it ma 
descend, which probably does not exceed a hundred fathoms. 
‘¢ As in other deep-sea fishes, the young of this species are 
more frequently found near the surface than the adult, which 
are very rare. They accompany floating objects, chiefly for 
real or fancied protection, or for the sake of animalcules 
which congregate round every object floating on the surface of 
the sea; this is what induces these little fish to follow Me- 
dusee. The idea expressed by the specific name of our fish, 
viz. that it follows Meduse in order to feed on them, cannot 
be correct, as the fish could draw but little nourishment from 
those animals.” Lastly, according to Dr. Albert Giinther, 
“The specimen obtained by Mr. Ogilby probably followed 
one of the shoals of fry of Clupeoids which annually travel 
_ from the open sea towards our coasts, and are followed by a 
number of southern fish which prey upon them and in their 
* Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. vol. xi. p. 228, pl. xlvii. 
+ Giinther, Catal. of Fish. ii. p. 412; Lutken, Vid, Selsk, Skr, 1880, 
. 525. 
4 { Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, p. 149. 
