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it in summer. They were unknown in the Firth before. 

 Specimens from here are now in the British Museum, London. 



ACESTRA .asQUOREA [Equorial Pipe-fish}. This species and the 



ACESTRA ANGUINEA [Snake Pipe-fish] are both occasionally found. 

 The latter, however, are seemingly the most frequent. 



CHIMERA MONSTROSA [Northern Chimaera]. 



A specimen of this deep-sea and rather rare species was brought 

 into our harbour in 1859 on board a herring-boat. It was 

 found floating, and quite dead. The first dorsal was somewhat 

 injured, and the cord-like portion of the tail was wanting. It 

 was unknown to the fishermen who found it, and who, for want 

 of a better name, called it the " devil. " 



SCYLLIUM MELANOSTOMUM [Black-mouthed Dog-fish]. 



I am led to believe that this species does occasionally occur with 

 us. It is generally mixed up with the commoner sorts. 



ZYG.ENA MALLEUS [Hammer-headed Shark]. 



A specimen of this strange-looking animal was found dead on the 

 shore about two miles beyond Whitehills in 1861. It was a 

 middling-sized specimen, measuring about five feet in length and 

 about eighteen inches across the head. It had lain some time, 

 for the skin was blackish, and had the appearance of charred or 

 burnt leather. 



LAMNA CORNUBICA [Porbeagle], 



It is now well known that the Porbeagle finds his way here occa- 

 sionally, and usually about the herring season. There is a very 

 fine specimen in our Museum. 



ALOPIAS VULPES [The Fox Shark], 



So far as I have been able to learn, this shark appears to be very 

 rarely met with here. It has, however, been found. 



NOTIDANUS GRISEUS \Erown or Mediterranean Shark]. 



A large specimen of this shark was taken in the Firth here, and 

 brought on shore at Whitehills in December 1857. After be- 

 ing exhibited in Banff by the fishermen, its captors, as an un- 

 known monster, it was bought for the Banff Museum, where it 

 now is. This shark is the first known to have been found in 

 the British seas. 



RAIA MIRALETUS [Homelyan Ray], Occasionally met with. 



RAIA SPINOSA [Sandy Ray]. 



This species is well enough known to the fishermen, but they do 

 not often take it. 



RAIA CHAGRINEA [Shagreen Ray]. This is also occasionally taken. 



AMMOC-ETES BRANCHIALIS [Pride or Mud Lamprey]. 



We have, at least, one species of this peculiar genus as an in- 

 habitant of the Deveron. 



