CLASS PISCES. 93 



Family CARANGIDJE, Gunther. 

 Genus CAPROS, Lacepede. 



Capros aper, Lacepede. BOAR FISH. 



According to Day (Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 vol. i., p. 137), numbers were caught at Harwich and Southend, 

 about May, 1879. Mr. J. T. Carrington further states 

 (Zool., 1879, p. 342) the fact of the capture of these specimens 

 in a shrimp trawl. 



Family CYTTID^, Kaup. 



Genus ZEUS, Cuv. 



Zeus faber, Linn. JOHN DORY. 



This fish is occasionally taken in the shrimp trawls, but 

 all the specimens that I have ever seen have been small, and 

 none of them exceeded seven inches in length. 



Family XIPHIID^, Agassiz. 

 Genus XiPHlAS, Artedi. 



Xiphius gladius, Linn. SWORD FISH. 



Mr. Montford records (Zool., 1847, p. 1911) the finding of 

 a dead one off the coast of Essex in 1834. C. Parsons also 

 mentions (ZooL, 1862, p. 8289) the capture of a living one in 

 Potton Creek, the sword of which was three feet long. An 

 Essex specimen mentioned by Day (Fishes of Great Britain, 

 vol. i., p. 148) was probably the same. Buckland (Famil. Hist, 

 of Brit. Fishes, p. 37) says a fine specimen, eight feet eight 

 and a-half inches long, of which he made a cast, was caught 

 at Leigh, near Southend, in November, 1866 (see also Field, 

 Nov. 3, 1896, p. 362). 



