372 Banffshire Fauna. [APPENDIX. 
Bertone vunearis [The Gar-fish, or, as it is called here, the ‘‘ Green- 
been”’] is by no means scarce at certain seasons. 
Scomperesox savrus [The Saury Pike]. 
Not so often met with as the last. In fact, it must be termed rare. 
Satmo saar [ Z'he Salmon]. 
This valuable and highly prized fish is found both along our coast 
and in our fresh waters. At one time, they were very numerous 
in the Deveron, From a pot or hole which once existed a little 
below the bridge which spans the river, at a little distance from 
the sea, and not far from the town, as many as one hundred, and 
sometimes more, have been taken at a haul. This was before 
stake and bag nets were so thickly planted along our sea-shore 
as they are now. 
Satmo wriox [Zhe Bull or Gray Trout]. 
Some large individuals of this species are often taken. 
Satmo trorra [ The Salmon-trout]. 
These were at one time believed to be the young of the salmon; 
and the tacksman gave orders that they should not be taken. 
Previously, they had been fished for with small-meshed nets, and 
sold as trout, under the name of “finnock.” Time passed and 
the river beheld another tacksman, who, differing from his pred- 
ecessor, gave orders that they should be again taken. Accord- 
ingly, they are now annually fished for, and are once more sold as 
“sea-trout,” “ white trout,” and “ finnock.” 
Satmo rarro [The Common Trout]. 
In all our streams. These also are taken, and sold with the last- 
mentioned. 
OsmeRuS EPERLANUS [ Z'he Smelt]. 
Rare with us. 
Ciupra Hareneus [ The Herring]. 
This species abounds along this coast toward the middle of summer 
and the beginning of autumn. The fry of this fish is met with 
nearly all the year round. 
Crores Leacut [Leach’s Herring]. 
A rather smaller-sized herring than the common species. It is gen- 
erally met with in small shoals in May and June. 
Ciupea spratrus [ The Sprat or Garnel Herring]. 
This is also met with about the same time, but in smaller numbers. 
Atosa rinta [Zhe Twaite Shad]. 
Rare. A very fine specimen was taken in our river last summer 
about a mile from the sea. 
