286 FISHES. 



each other; one measured 19 J inches long, the other was rather 

 smaller. 



Pleuronectes limanda, L. Common Dab. 

 Common. 



Pleuronectes flesus, L. Flounder. 



Low says it is common in all the creeks and bays, and especially 

 in the shallower parts of the loch of Stenness. Mr. Moodie- 

 Heddle says it is rarer than the Plaice. 



Solea vulgaris, Quinzel. Sole. 



Low describes a fish he calls a Sole, and says it is easily distin- 

 guished from the rest of the genus by being so narrow in 

 proportion to its length : he gives the loch of Skaill as a 

 locality, and Mr. Moodie-Heddle gives St. Margaret's Hope. 



Baikie says it is rare : we ourselves have never seen one : 

 nor has Mr. Cowan in fifty years' experience. 



Solea aurantiaca, Gunth. Lemon Sole. 



Dr. Duguid obtained a specimen of this species in August 1848. 



Order 4. PHYSOSTOMI. 



Family SCOMBROSCnXffi. 

 Belone vulgaris, Flem. Garfish. 



Not uncommon, according to Baikie. Scapa, 1845. J. G. M.-H. 



Scombresox saurus (Wall.). Saury; Skipper. 



Low mentions that in 1773 such a glut of these fish set into the 

 head of Kerston Bay, that they could be caught in pailfuls. 

 Numbers were caught, and heaps flung ashore. The seamen 

 called them Garfish, and said they were common on the 

 American coast. They had not been known there before. Mr. 

 Moodie-Heddle writes us that they occurred at Oisemouth, 

 Kirkwall, in May 1849. 



