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INDEX 



Sim adds the lesser ling to the British 



fauna, 262 

 Sinarapan, 1 1 

 Siphonostoma, 155, 173 

 Six-gilled shark, 84, 86, 100 

 Size of fishes, 1 1 



Skager Rack, Gar-fish in the, 140 

 Skates, 9, 10, 16, 20, 32, 34, 105-108 

 Skin of fishes, 260 

 Skipper, 142 

 Skulpin, 8 



Smell, Power of, in fishes, 18 

 Smelt-fishing at Covves, 66 

 Smith, Dr. Hugh, on American fish 



culture, 302 

 Smooth-hound, 86, 97 

 Smooth serranus, 271, 275 

 Snake pipe-fish, 155, 174 

 Snipe-fish, 291 

 Soft roe, 44 

 Soft-finned fishes, 13 

 Sole, 4, 9, 18, 44, 49, 211, 212,214,215, 



239 

 Solea, 20, 36, 44, 49, 215, 223 f.n., 234 



Soleida, 216, 234 



Solenette, 215, 238 



South American lung-fish, 2 



Southern forms, 35 



South Pacific, Fishes of the, 38, 161 



Spanish bream, 114, 125 



„ mackerel, 129, 135, 167 



„ trawl, 70 

 SparidcE, 36, 114, 121 

 Spawning grounds, 47 

 „ in captivity, 46 



,, time, 47, 227, 254 

 Spawn of fishes, 2 

 Spearing fishes, 59 

 Spent fishes, 48 

 sphyrana, 272, 295 

 spinachia, 155 

 Spinacidcs, 86, 100 

 spinostis, 86, 102 

 Spinous shark, 86, 102 

 Spiny-finned fishes, 13 

 Spiracles in sharks and rays, 4, 22 

 Spots in young fishes, 8 

 Spotted dog-fish, 98 



Spotted dragonet, 155, 163 



goby, 155, 159 

 Sprat, 37, 63, 198, 199, 200, 201, 206 

 sprattus, 201, 206 

 Spur-dog, 19, 37, 81, 100 

 sguamosus, 85, 86, 102 

 squatina, 86, 103 

 Squeteague, 303 

 " Squire," 121 

 Stake-nets, 63 

 Starry ray, 105, 109 

 Stationary flat-fish, 55 

 Steam trawler, 69 

 SternopthicidcB, 272 

 Stickleback, 17, 32, 38, 49, 172 

 stictopteryx, 155, 167 

 Stingray, 40, 41, 105, in 

 Stomias, 35 

 Stone-basse, 275 

 Stornaway herrings, 202 

 Stow-net, 57, 63 



Straight-nosed pipe-fish, 1 5 5, 173, 1 74 

 Strap-conger, 177 

 Streaked gurnard, 145, 149 

 Stream-nets, 63 

 Striped wrasse, 190, 191 

 Stromateida, 36, 271 

 Sturgeon, 3, 14, 271, 274 

 sturio, 271, 274 

 Suckers, 32, 155, 163-167 

 Suffolk, Pilot-fish in, 286 

 Sun-fish, 13, 21, 272, 297 

 " Sun-fish," 92, 285 

 surmuleius, 114, 121, 128 

 Sussex, Bass in, 120 

 Swiss lakes. Char in the, 53 

 Sword-fish, 13, 36, 37, 90, 287 

 Sydney fishes, 38, 121 

 SygnathidcB, 36, 155, 173 

 Sygnathus, 13, 17,21, 155, 174 



" Tacaud," 250 



Tail of fishes, 13 



Talisman expedition, 19, 258 f.n. 



Tangier, Bass at, 121 ; red mullet at, 



126 

 Tasmania, Bellows-fish in, 291 

 Tautog, 303 



