88 MIGRATION. 



Squalus boreales (Greenland Shark), he says, " A fish 

 resembling a whiting was found in the stomach of one 

 that T killed." Captain Phipps only caught the Sucker 

 {Gyclopteris viperus), and the Coal fish {Gadus car- 

 honarius), and no herrings, when fishing near Spitzber- 

 gen. Moreover, Scoresby, in his list of " Fishes found 

 in the Arctic Regions," does not include herrings (Arctic 

 Regions, vol. i. p. 540). Egede, who resided fifteen years 

 in Greenland, after enumerating various kinds of fish 

 cauglit there, says, " No herrings are to be seen" (Natu- 

 ral History of Greenland). 



6. We find that those species of whales which feed 

 principally on herrings frequent our own shores and those 

 of Norway. Scoresby says of the Baloina musculus, 

 " This species of whale frequents the coasts of Scotland, 

 Ireland, Norway, &c., and is said principally to feed on 

 herrings" (Voyage, vol. i. p. 482) ; and the Balcena ros- 

 trata inhabits principally the Norwegian seas. 



7. Bloch, the celebrated naturalist (with whom Lace- 

 pede in this particular statement coincides), has estab- 

 lished that fishes of a similar size, even in fresh water, 

 could not make, from spring till autumn, the long voyage 

 attributed to the herring. 



8. The same naturalist further states, that " herrings 

 may be found in certain localities all the year through," 

 and this coincides with the opinion of the experienced 

 fishermen at Loch Fyne and other places ; and it is well 

 ascertained that herrings, either young or old, may be 

 caught in the Forth any month in the year. 



9. The herrings mentioned as coming from the north 

 are never known to return, or even to proceed southward, 

 but when proceeding to some coast for the purpose of 

 spawning. 



