FISHES. 295 



Conger vulgaris, Guv. Conger. 



Common. Mr. Irvine-Fortescue says the Congers were formerly 

 thrown away when caught, but now they are sent to the 

 southern market. Last summer (1889), for the first time, he 

 saw a boat close inshore off Swanbister Bay fishing Congers, 

 for which, he was told, they got 6s. a cwt. For years a family, 

 which came from Banffshire, and settled in Orphir, have fished 

 Congers about Copinsay for the southern market. 



Order 5. LOPHOBRANCHIL 

 Family SYNGNATHIDJE. 



Siphonostoma typhle (L.). Deep-nosed Pipe-fish. 



Mentioned by Low as not rare, and some of our other correspon- 

 dents corroborate this. 



Syngnathus acus (L.). Great Pipe-fish. 



Occurs not uncommonly. Mr. Irvine-Fortescue has found it 

 about Swanbister. 



Nerophis aequoreus (L.). XEquoreal Pipe-fish, 



Eeported as not scarce by Baikie. 



A very fine specimen of this curious species of fish was taken at 

 Kirkwall Pier in January 1881 by Mr. T. Peace of that place, 

 and sent up to the editor of Land and Water for identification. 



Nerophis lumbriciformis (L.). Little Pipe-fish. 

 Said to occur in Orkney commonly (Baikie). 



Hippocampus antiquorum, Leach. Sea-horse, 



Day mentions one that was picked up dead in the Orkneys, and 

 recorded by Baikie in the Zoologist for 1853, p. 3847. 



