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LXXIII.— NOTES 01^ SOME IRISH FISHES. By J. DOUGLAS 

 OGILBY, Senior Assistant-Zoologist, Australian Museum, Sydney. 



[Read, June^lS, 1885.] 



The recent publication of Dr. Francis Day's important work on 

 the Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland has led me to a close 

 examination of the Irish species and localities mentioned, and as 

 my notes have extended to a considerable length, I now offer them 

 as a contribution towards a revision of the Irish Fishes, upon 

 which my friend Mr. A. Gr. More and myself have been for 

 some time engaged. 



Lahrax lupus} — In addition to the example mentioned (Day, 

 p. 10) as having_,been recorded from Portrush, county of Antrim — - 

 which, if mine from Zoologist, 1876, p. 4754, should by rights be 

 from Portstewart, county of Derry — I have since obtained a mag- 

 nificent specimen, scaling 13f lbs., caught in my presence with a 

 seine on the west strand, Portrush, Oct. 8, 1878. The stomach con- 

 tained numbers of Paguri, and two young coal-fish, each about 

 five inches in length. Shortly after this date I was informed of 

 the capture of another specimen, weighing over 10 lbs., by a boy 

 engaged in fishing for flukes with a lug- worm bait, a short distance 

 inside the mouth of the Bann. On the 17th July, 1883, I saw a 

 bass of about 6 lbs. weight, which had been taken in the Foyle, 

 opposite St. Johnston, and about thirty miles above the mouth of 

 the river. Although the man who had it stated that he had seen 

 one previously, it was so little known that he called it a " big 

 herring." From these observations it would appear that the 

 bass only visits our northern coasts in the autumn, as a straggler 

 of large size and solitary. In the Belfast market they begin to 

 appear about the middle of June, from the nets set in the Lough. 



Pol'f/jmon cernium. — The only specimen of which I have heard 

 is that recorded by Andrews {JSfat. Hist. Rev., vol. ii. p. 38j, as 

 having been caught ojff Yentry, Dingle Bay, during September, 

 1854; weight, 10^ lbs; length, 251 inches; and is probably the 

 same as that mentioned by Dr. Day. 



1 The Latin names are taken from Dr. Day's "Work. 



