INDEX 



315 



taking whiffing baits, 192 ; on the 

 distribution of Centrolabrus, 196 ; 

 on the scales of both sexes in the 

 rainbow wrasse, 197 ; misprint in 

 account of the flounder, 222 ; on 

 the spawning of pout, 251 ; on the 

 names of pollack, 255 ; on poor 

 cod and pouting, 257 ; on the 

 teeth of the sand-eel, 269; on 

 the mendole, 276 ; on the bait of 

 the angler-fish, 279 ; on the flying- 

 fish, 284; on Ray's bream, 285; 

 on Coryphcenoides, 292 ; on the 

 forkbeard, 292 ; on Murana, 296 



Day, Reasons for trawhng by, 69 



Deadman, Luvarus found near the, 286 



Deal-fish, 13, 271, 290 



Deal, Shad caught near, 209 



Dean, Dr. Bashford, calls Ctenolabrus 

 a bream, 6, 125, 195 ; on the out- 

 line of fishes, 12 ; on barbels in 

 fishes, 17; on the pineal eye, i8 ; 

 on early development in sharks, 

 51 ; on the ancestry of sharks and 

 rays, 84 ; on the Spanish mackerel, 

 135 ; on a wrasse, 195 ; on the 

 cod type, 242 ; on Chimcera, 272 ; 

 on a result of the commensal 

 habit, 294 



decadactylus, 271, 278 



decandolii, 155, 167 



Dee Estuary, Scald-fish in the, 232 ; 

 three-bearded rockling in the, 265 



Deep-sea fishes, 32 



Definition of a fish, I 



Delage, 57; on the larval conger, 179 



Demersal eggs of the herring, 202 



Denmark, Fish-hatching in, 307 



dentatus, 35, 272, 294 



Dentex, 35, 271, 276 



" Dermal " sense in fish, Dunn's, 15 



Devon, Blade-fish in, 31 ; trawling in, 

 57, 68; Sea Fisheries Committee of, 

 80 ; bottle-nosed ray in, 108 ; bass 

 in, 116; bream in, 121; mackerel 

 in, 133; megrim 'plentiful in, 230; 

 three-bearded rockling in, 265 ; 

 pilot-fish in, 286 ; forkbeard in, 292 



Die Verbreitung der Fische (Palacky), 

 26 



Discoboli, 155 



Distribution of fishes, 28; of bass, 120; 

 of flat-fish, 239 



Dog, Picked, 86, 100, 284 

 ,, Silver, 96 

 ,, Spur-, 100 



Dog-fish, 8, 85, 96 



„ Black-mouthed, 51, 86, 99 



Dogger, Cod-fishing on the, 57 



Dohrn, Dr. Anton, 57 



Donegal Bay, Deal-fish in, 290 



Donovan on the age of sticklebacks, 

 160; on the nature of whitebait, 

 204 



" Dorsch," 247 



Dory, The John, 6, 129, 138 



Douarnenez, Mackerel shoals off, 133 



Doubly-spotted sucker, 155, 167 



Dover soles, 235 



draco, 145, 152 



Dragonet, Gemmeous, 7, 8, 10, 13, 155, 

 162 

 „ Spotted, 155, 163 



Drepanopsetta, ivj i.n. 



Dresden, Shad at, 209 



Drift-net, The, 54, 57, 62, 65, 66, 67, 

 68, 203 



"Drum," The, 288 



Drummond's Echiodon, 294 



Dubois on the female torpedo, 1 1 1 



ductor, 271 



" Dun-belly," 201 



Dunn, Howard, 293 

 „ The late Matthias, on malformed 

 sea-breams, II, 123 ; on the lateral 

 line in the pilchard, 15 ; on 

 " singing bubbles," 23 ; story of 

 a grampus nearly suffocated by 

 a shoal of mackerel, 28, 198 ; on 

 the egg-case of rays, 39, 98, 107 ; 

 on the need for destroying cor- 

 morants and porpoises, 82 ; on 

 sharks attacking fishermen, 96; 

 on the breeding oi Acanthias, loi ; 

 on young mackerel, 132 ; on the 

 lowest temperature suitable to 



