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proonrcJ at different times in tlie Orkneys and Zetland, and one nearly 6 feet in 

 length was captnred in Sunday. Mortimer, in 1750, exhibited at the Royal Society 

 one taken at Leith. It is scarcely necessary to emimerate all the various captures, 

 a long list of which may be seen in the Thirty-ninth Annnal Report of the 

 Royal Com^^nll Polytechnic Sociity for ISliP, p. 76. Pennant records two from 

 Scotland, and in 170'.', one 3 feet (i inches long, and weighing 70 or 80 lb., was 

 taken in Korthumberland, and dcsci-ilied by Harrison in the British Zoology. 

 One in Filey Bay, Torkshire, 3 feet 6 inches long, and in 1 772 one, 4 feet 6 inches 

 long and weighing 1 l.(J lb., at Brixham. Paget recorded one in December, 1823, 

 and another in November, 1828, captnred at Yarmouth : and Sconler one from 

 the Clyde in 183:>. In 183^., during the early part of the summer, one was taken 

 in the west of Coi'nwall, and in August the same year another near Conway 

 (Couch) : and in July, 1839, one at Hunstanton, on the east coast of Norfolk, 

 which was placed in the Wisbeach Museum. March 3rd, 1839, one was taken at 

 Port Gordon, near Elgin, 3 feet 10 inches long, weighing 112 lb. (Gordon, Zool. 

 18.j2, p. 3469), and several years subsequently another from near Nairn. In 

 1844, on July 4th, Mr. Gurney (Zool. p. 679) recorded one at Norwich which had 

 been left by the tide on the beach at Eccles, it was a male weighing 4 or 5 stone. 

 Norman mentions one taken in February, 1849, at Flamborough Head : and in 

 1850, another weighing 72 lb. at Redcar (Rudd, Zool. ix, lS51, p. 3010). Several 

 others have been recorded from Scotland and the west of England, and Edward 

 states it to have been taken in Banfl'Khire on several occasions. A local example 

 is in the St. Andrew's Museum (Mcintosh). In June, 1866, a large specimen 

 was taken in St. Austell's Bay, Cornwall. 



In Ireland we find one recorded in Sampson's Derry (p. 337), which was sent 

 to the Dublin Society : in 183.5 one was taken in June in the Foyle (Ordnance 

 Survey). In October, 1^'42, one was sent from Tramore to the Dublin University 

 Museum : and in June, 1849, one weighing 55 lb. was taken in Derry (Derry 

 Standard) : in August the same 3'ear, another at Wexford, weighing 69 lb. In 

 July, 1850, one from Belfast Bay, and in 1851, one from Skerries, now in the 

 University Museum. 



The figure is taken from the stuffed example in the British Museum. 



The size to which it attains is questionable, but it has been recoi'ded up to 

 6 feet in leno-th. 



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