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Shore-fishes, or those that live chiefly in the rock -pools between 

 high and low water-marks, such as the Gobies and Blcnnies, 

 and other small fishes which are not likely to be captured by 

 fishermen, and are only occasionally thrown up on the shore 

 after severe gales. Most naturalists who have searched our 

 coasts in former years for Mollusca, Zoophytes, or Algse, could 

 not very well help noticing some of these smaller fishes which 

 have by accident come in their way when thus engaged, but no 

 attempt has been made to collect and record these, and thus the 

 small shore-fishes are those in which our Museum Collection and 

 this list are most defective ; and it is among these rock-dwelling 

 species that the discovery of new additions to our Fish-fauna is 

 most likely to be made by anyone who should take up this sub- 

 ject for special investigation. 



In preparing this Catalogue the following works have, in ad- 

 dition to those mentioned above, been carefully consulted. The 

 systematic arrangement and nomenclature, with but few ex- 

 ceptions, is that given by Dr. Giinther in The Study of Fishes, 

 published in 1881. 



Willughby's Historia Piscium, 1686. 



John Ray's Synopsis Piscium, 1713. 



Linnaeus' Systema Naturce, Vol. I., 13tli edition, 1767. 



Donovan's Natural History of British Fishes, 1802 — 8. 



Fleming's History of British Animals, 1828. 



Yarrell's History of British Fishes, 2nd edition. 



Couch's History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 1862 — 1865. 



Giinther' s Study of Fishes, 1881. 



PenneU's Angler Naturalist, 1863. 



F. Buckland's Natural History of British Fishes, 1880. 



The references to species and figures have been given to Yarrell 

 and Couch whose works will be for many years yet the chief 

 books of reference for British Fishes ; and it must not be for- 

 gotten that it is to these authors chiefly that we are most in- 

 debted for what we at present know of the occurrence of and 

 the distribution of the Fishes of these Islands. The two last- 

 named works are perhaps more popular, and contain, the one, a 

 detailed and trustworthy account of our Freshwater Fishes, 

 which should be placed early in the hands of every youth and 



