Ogilby — On some Irish Fishes. 511 



Mullus harhatus. — Is said to occur, but very rarely, in the Bel- 

 fast market. I have failed to obtain an example. 



Pagellus centrodontus. — Abundant at Portrush, where it is called 

 "brazier". Fished for with hand-lines from a boat anchored at 

 the edge of a tide or in eddies, the first two hours of the flood 

 being the best time for this fishery, and the baits employed being 

 crab, or boiled limpets. Also taken commonly on " spotty ground", 

 i. e. patches of rock and shell-sand, upon lines set in a slack tide, 

 and baited with mackerel, garfish, or sand-eel, with a mixture of 

 whelk. I have known a single example to have taken an india- 

 rubber eel while whifiing for pollock. 



Cantharus lineatus. — Rutty was evidently mistaken in his iden- 

 tification of this species, which has not been since taken in the 

 localities mentioned, though his record would lead one to suppose 

 that it was not uncommon. I never saw one either at Kingstown, 

 Dalkey, or Killiney, in all which places I have frequently fished. 

 In botanical matters also, as well as in his account of the Mammals 

 of Dublin, little reliance can be placed on Eutty's accuracy. 



Sebastes norvegicus. — There seems to be an error in the first 

 Irish record given by Dr. Day, p. 44 ; the notice in the Dublin 

 Nat. Hist. Froc. ru.ns- somewhat as follows : — " Two fine specimens 

 taken in the month of March last, on the long lines set for ling in 

 deep water off the Wild Bank, Dingle Bay." The Paper was read 

 on May 4, 1849, in above Froc, vol. ii. p. 61. 



\_Cotius gobio. — There seems to be no doubt that this species 

 does not exist in any of our northern rivers.] 



Cott'us scorpiiis. — Both this, and the next species, C, bubalis, 

 are called " Johnnie Doran " (never, that I have heard, " miller's 

 thumb," as stated in the foot-notes to pp. 80, 81, of Thompson) 

 on the coast about Portrush, and " cobbler " at Bray, where both 

 are common, the latter, however, being the more numerous of the 

 two. 



Trigla cuculus. — Next to the grey gurnard, this is the most 

 abundant species about Portrush, its proportionate numbers with 

 T. hirundo being about three to one {vide Thompson, p. 73, contra). 

 It is probable that Thompson was led astray in his computation, 

 because of this fish being kept mostly for home use, while its larger 

 congener is sent to market. 



Trigla hirundo. — I have on several occasions taken this fish 



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