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found in its stomach a John Dory; the skin was gone, but there was no 
difficulty in the identification. The Torquay specimen was very small and 
no doubt immature, for according to the Orkney paper already mentioned a 
specimen was taken near Whalsey, one of the Shetland Isles, 27°5 feet 
long and 16 feet thick. The liver yielded 165 gallons of oil, which was 
sold for £16 10s. Yarrell saw at Brighton a Basking Shark 86 feet long. 
One was taken in Cornwall that measured 31 feet 8 inches; and Lacepéde 
speaks of one 33 feet in length and 24 feet in circumference. The Shark 
is valuable on account of the oil obtained from its liver. Fleming says the 
liver of a full-sized fish yields from eight to twelve barrels of oil; that 
of the Cornish specimen above referred to produced 198 gallons. ‘Two 
examples at Broadhaven, in Scotland, yielded about nineteen barrels, of 
which eight make a ton. Judging from the ‘Torquay specimen now under 
notice, Couch’s figure of the tail is incorrect; he makes the length of the 
larger lobe bear to that of the smaller the ratio of 4 to 2, whereas it should 
be 4 to 3.—W. Pencetry (Torquay). 
Remora, oR SuckinG-FisH, OFF THE Cornish Coast.—On July 14th 
a Porbeagle Shark, nine feet long, was taken on a mackerel line, about 
twelve miles south of Deadmans, by the fishing-boat ‘ Willie,’ Rolling, 
master. Mr. Dunn informs me that, on going on board the boat on 
its arrival at Mevagissey, he inquired of the men if they had seen anything 
of a little black fish clinging on to the Shark? One of them declared he 
had, and had thrown it into the sea. However, on Mr. Dunn looking in 
the boat, near the tail of the Shark, he discovered a Remora, which he 
kindly sent tome. It is 4} inches in length, and in excellent preservation. 
The number of recorded instances in which British examples of the 
Echeneis remora have been captured are few. Turton states that he 
obtained one in 1806 at Swansea from the back of a cod-fish. In July, 
1848, one was taken at Clontarf, Dublin Bay, adhering to the gills of 
a Blue Shark; and, in 1867, Mr. Dunn obtained the first specimen taken 
in England, also from a Blue Shark, about six miles distant from where 
the present one was captured.—F rancis Day (Pittville, Cheltenham). 
Rare FisHes oN THE Cornish Coast.—On June 21st I received, from 
Mr. Dunn, of Mevagissey, in Cornwall, a small specimen of Maigre, 
Sciena aquila, 23 in. in length, which had been captured the previous day 
inatrammel. He observed that these fishes arrive off the Cornish coast 
about the spring of the year, in company with the Bass, Labraa lupus, 
which at this season are feeding on the young of the Herring, Sprats, and 
other fishes, and it therefore seems a fair presumption that they indulge in 
similar food. Externally, and in colour, the two forms somewhat resemble 
one another, and it is not improbable that many Maigre may haxe been 
captured, but overlooked. On June 2nd Mr. Dunn likewise forwarded to 
