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INDEX 



Montagu's sucker, 155, 166 



Mora, 272, 294 



Moray Firth, Witch in the, 225 



Morocco, Dog-fish in, 99 ; red mullet in, 



126; shad in, 209 

 M or one, 114 

 morrhua, 24^ 

 Morris, 180 

 morristi, 179 



Motella, 32, 35, 245, 262, 264, 265 

 Mousehole, Falling off of hake at, 259 

 Mouth of fishes, 20 

 Mudskippers, 161 

 Mugil, 21, 32, 34, 184 

 MugilidcE, 184 

 Mailer's topknot, 232 

 Mullet, Grey, 21, 32, 34, 184-187 



,, Red, 7, 17, 31, 63, 114, 125 

 MullidcB, 114, 125 

 Mullus, 21, 31, 114, 125 

 Mur/xna, 35, 37, 272, 296 

 Murmnidce, 176, 272 

 Murray, Dr., 35, 276 

 murrayi, 36, 271, 276 

 Murray's gurnard, 271, 276 

 Murry, 272 

 mustela, 245, 262 

 Mustelus, 19, 37, 86, 97 

 Mya, 159 



MyliobatidcB, 105, 112 

 Myliobatis, 21, 40, 97, 105, 108, 112 



Nannygai, 10 



Naples, Bass at, 121 ; eggs of bream 



at, 122; spawn of red mullet at, 



•27 ; eggs of hake studied at, 259 

 National Sea Fisheries Protection 



Association, 83 

 Natural History Museum, Fishes at 



the, 6 

 NatiirgeschichU des Herings {Heincke), 



203 f.n. 

 Nature, quoted, 199 f.n. 

 Naucrates, 9, 271, 286 

 nerka, 303 



Nerophis, 155, 173, 174 

 Nets used in fishing, 61-70 

 Nettophichthys, 272, 295 



New South Wales, Fishes of, 10, 38 

 New Zealand, Frost-fish of, 289 ; fish- 

 culture in, 299 ; the rabbit in, 309 

 Newton Abbot, Bass near, 116 

 Nictitating membrane in sharks and 



rays, 19 

 niger, 155, 158 

 Night, Trawling at, 69 

 Nile, A fish of the, 3 

 nilssoni, 35, 155, i6o 

 Nilsson's goby, 155, 157, 160 

 Nineteenth Century, quoted, 299, 



306 f.n. 

 nobiliana, 105, 109 

 Norfolk coast, Rarity of pollack on the, 



253 ; maigre on the, 288 

 North Atlantic, Fishes of the, 30 

 North Sea, Investigation of the, 5, 47 

 Northumberland, Banks' oar-fish in, 



291 

 norvegicus, 145, 147, 215, 234, 271, 277, 



278 

 Norway bullhead, 145 



„ Fisheries of, 66, 169, 300 



„ Fishes of, 14, 30, 37 



,, haddock, 167, 271, 277; pout, 



272, 293 

 Norwegian topknot, 215, 234 

 Nostrils of fishes, 19 

 Notidanida, 86, 99 

 Notidanus, 84, 86 

 Nurse or Nursehound, 86, 98 



Oblong Sun-fish, 272, 297 



obscura, 145, 149 



ocellaris, 155, 168, 170 



" Offing gurnard," 150 



Oil-globule in the eggs of fishes, 49, 50 



Old- wife, 114, 125 



Oncorhynchus, 303 



One-spotted topknot, 215 



Onos, 35 



Onslow, Lord, appointed as Minister 



of Fisheries, 56 

 Opah, 7, 10, 271, 285 

 Ophidiid(E, 24^, 266, 272 

 ophidian, 155, 174 

 Ophidium, 272, 394 



