328 CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 



an abstract of which is given in the Report of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the York Meeting, 1 844. 1 One hundred and forty 

 species are stated in this list to occur on the Yorkshire Coast, or 

 rather more than one-half of the Fish-fauna of the British Is- 

 lands. About the same number are admitted into the Yorkshire 

 Yertebrate-fauna by Messrs. "W. E. Clarke and W. D. Roebuck, 

 in their Handbook of the Yertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire, 1881. 

 These authors exclude, however, the Atherine, the Four-horned 

 Bullhead, the Starry Bay, and the Large-spotted Dogfish, which 

 are most of them recorded from the Forth by Dr. Parnell, and 

 some of which have already occurred on our own coast ; and two 

 or three others, which undoubtedly require further confirmation, 

 though they are species very likely to have occurred as stragglers 

 to the East Coast. 



For our own particular district the only records we have since 

 the date of Dr. Gk Johnston's list are such as have been recorded 

 in the volumes of the Berwickshire Transactions and the Tyne- 

 side Naturalists' Field Club and Natural History Transactions 

 of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 

 such as have been observed by Mr. John Hancock and a few 

 other naturalists in our more immediate neighbourhood ; and the 

 specimens which from time to time have been presented to the 

 Museum or acquired for it by purchase. Among these are some 

 of the rarest species that have been found on the British Coasts, 

 as the Maigre, and that splendid fish the Opah, preserved and 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. John Hancock, and a few 

 others, all of which will be found duly recorded in the Catalogue ; 

 a specimen of the Black -fish, caught at Cullercoats, presented 

 by Mr. Joshua Alder; the Banks' Oar-fish, presented by Mr. E. 

 Whitfield; the large Sun-fish, presented by W. J. Forster, Esq., 



1 T. Meynell— List of Fishes of Yorkshire Coast. Brit. Assoc. Report, 1844. 



Ferguson— The Natural History of Redear. 1860. 



Clarke and Roebuck — Handbook of Yorkshire Vertebrata. 1881. 



History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club, Vols. I.— XII. 1831—89. 



Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Vols. I., II., 1831—1838, and Reports, 1829— 1SS9. 



Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 1846—1864, Vols. I.— VI. 



Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, Vols. I.— X., 1865—1890. 



