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many specimens have been taken since that time of which no 

 record has been made. This fish may be considered a resident 

 in "Coaly Tyne." 



Fam. SPARIDJi. 

 Pagellus ceritrodontus, Cuv. Common Sea-Bream. 



This is the only species of the Sparidce that I have been able 

 to satisfactorily and from personal inspection of a specimen to 

 authenticate as a visitor to the North Sea. The Gilthead has 

 often been said to occur on our coast, but most probable the speci- 

 mens were only the Common Sea-Bream. In the Catalogue this 

 fish and the Black Sea-Bream were introduced on the authority 

 of others, but at any rate they have not been recognised recently, 

 and I have not seen a specimen preserved or otherwise. Until 

 other specimens are taken their occurrence in the North Sea 

 must remain very doubtful. 



Fam. SCORPiENIDiE. 

 Scorpsena daclyloptera, Delaroche. 



A fine example of this rare fish was captured by the steam 

 trawler "Black Watch," Capt. Henry Whitfield, and sent by 

 him through J. P. Spence, Esq., to the Museum. It was captured 

 about 12 miles off the mouth of the Wansbeck, Northumberland 

 Coast, 8th of May, 1894, and sent alive to Mr. Spence, who kept 

 it for several hours in salt-water swimming about freely. It is 

 about 6f inches (172 m.m.) in length, was of a brilliant carmine 

 colour on the back, gradually softening into nearly pure white on 

 the abdomen. 



The first specimen recorded from the North Sea was washed 

 ashore near Bedcar in January, 1893, and sent by Mr. F. H. 

 Nelson, of Redcar, to Mr. Eagle Clarke, by whom its occurrence 

 is mentioned in the "Yorkshire Naturalist," 1893, and more 

 recently it has been figured and an exhaustive description given 

 of it by Mr. Clark in the Transactions of th~e Physical Society 

 of Edinburgh. A third specimen is said to have been taken in 

 the mouth of the Humber. Until these captures this fish was 



