380 Banffshire Fauna. [APPENDIX. 
floating, and quite dead. The first dorsal was somewhat injured, 
and the cord-like portion of the tail was wanting. It was un- 
known to the fishermen who found it, and who, for want ofa bet- 
ter name, called it the “devil.” 
ScyLirum MELANostomum [Black-mouthed Dogfish]. 
I am led to believe that this species does occasionally occur with 
us. It is generally mixed up with the commoner sorts. 
ZyGH@na mMauievs [Hammer-headed Shark]. 
A specimen of this strange-looking animal was found dead on the 
shore about two miles beyond Whitehills in 1861. It was a 
middling-sized specimen, measuring about five feet in length and 
about eighteen inches across the head. It had lain some time, 
for the skin was blackish, and had the appearance of charred or 
burned leather. 
Lamna cornupica [Porbeagle]. 
It is now well known that the porbeagle finds his way here occa- 
sionally, and usually about the herring season. There is # very 
fine specimen in our Museum. 
ALopras vuLpes [Mox-shark]. 
So far as I have been able to learn, this shark appears to be very 
rarely met with here. It has, however, been found. 
Normanvs eriseus [Brown or Mediterranean Shark]. 
A large specimen of this shark was taken in the Firth here, and 
brought on shore at Whitehills in December, 1857, After being 
exhibited in Banff by the fishermen, its captors, as an unknown 
monster, it was bought for the Banff Museum, where it now is. 
This shark is the first known to have been found in the British 
seas. 
Raia miraretus [Homelyn Ray]. 
Occasionally met with. 
Rata spinosa [Sandy Ray]. 
This species is well enough known to the fishermen, but they do not 
often take it. 
Raw cuacrinea [Shagreen Ray]. 
This is also occasionally taken. 
AMMOCETES BRANCHIALIS [Pride or Mud Lamprey]. 
We have, at least, one species of this peculiar genus as an inhabit- 
ant of the Deveron. 
