280 GANOIDEI. 



in the Free Kirk Museum in Edinburgh and figured in the last edition of 

 Tarrell's " British Fishes " by Sir J. Richardson. The authority for the habitat of 

 this specimen is as follows : — " Dr. Duns has the very strongest impression that the 

 specimen was obtained from the Firth of Tay." But Richardson, who described 

 it in 1859, does not appear to have ascertained from whence it had come, merely 

 observing that it is "about 18 inches long, which may probably be the young of 

 the Firth of Forth species, described at much length in the preceding pages." A 

 single specimen with such a doubtful history can hardly be accepted as sufficient 

 authority for including this sturgeon among the British Fauna. However, in 

 Dr. Giinther's " Introduction to the Study of Fish," p. 362, he observes that 

 A. maculosus " sometimes crosses the Atlantic to the coasts of Great Britain," 

 but he omits the authority for such a statement unless it be the solitary instance 

 referred to above, respecting wbich a strong impression exists that it was taken 

 on the east coast of Scotland. 



1. Acipenser sturio, Plate CL, fig. 1, 2, 3. 



Attilus, Rondel, p. 173; Belon. De Aquat. p. 102; Willughby, p. 241, t. P7, 

 f. 2 ; Aldrov. v, p. 363 ; Jonston, t. xxviii, f. 4. Sturio, Salvian. fol. 113, t. cxii ; 

 Willughby, p. 239, t. P7, f. 3 ; Ray, p. 112 ; Rondel, p. 410 ; Gesner. Aquat. 

 p. 73 ; Jonston, Lib. ii, tit. i, cap. vii, p. Ill, t. xxiii, f. 8 ; Rutty, Nat. Hist. Co. 

 Dublin, 1772, p. 363. Acipenser, sp. Artedi, Synon. p. 91, no. 1, Genera, p. 65, 

 no. 1 ; Gronov. Mus. i, p. 60, no. 131, and Zooph. p 39, no. 140. Sturgeon, 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 124, pi. xix (Ed. 1812) iii, p. 164, pi. xxii ; 

 Low, Orkneys, p. 176. Esturgeon, Duhamel, Peches, iii, p. 221, pi. i. 



Acipenser sturio, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 103 ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1483 ; Bloch, Ich. iii, 

 p. 726, t. lxxxviii; Lacep. i, p. 411, pi. xx, f . 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 347 ; Donovan, Brit. 

 Fish. pi. lxvi ; Shaw, Zool. t. clix ; Turton, p. 114 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 56, and Eur. 

 Merid. iii, p. 166 ; Nardo, Prod. Adr. Ich. p. 10 ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 173 ; Faber, 

 Fische, Isl. p. 46; Ekstrom, Fisch. Morko, p. 118 ; Brandt and Ratzeb. ii, pp. 17, 

 352, t. iii, f. 1 ; Templeton, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837 (2), i, p. 413 ; Johnston, Berw. 

 N. F. C. 1838, i, p. 175 ; Parnell, Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 247, and Wern. Mem. 

 vii, p. 403 ; Swainson, Fishes, i, p. 123, c. fig. and ii, p. 322 ; Jenyns, Manual, 

 p. 493 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (ed. 1) ii, p. 360, c. fig. (ed. 2) ii, p. 475 ; Niisson, 

 Skand. Fauna, iv, p. 699; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. .245; Kroyer, 

 Danm. Fiske, iii, p. 747 ; White, Catal. p. 121 ; Gronov. ed Gray, p. 3 ; Heckel and 

 Kner, Suss. w. f. p. 362, c. fig. ; Selys-Long. Faun. Belg. p. 185 ; Schlegel, Dieren 

 Neder. p. 184, pi. xvii, f . 5 ; Siebold, Suss. w. f. p. 363 ; Blanchard, Poiss. 

 de la France, p. 505, f . 133, 134, 135 ; Giinther, Catal. viii, p. 342 ; A. Dumeril, 

 Poiss. ii, p. 184, t. xvii,f. 10 ; Houghton, British Freshwater Fishes, p. 169, c. fig. ; 

 Winther, Prod. Ich. Dan. Mar. p. 55 ; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 205 ; Feddersen, 

 Danske Ferskvan spike, p. 93 ; Malm, Fauna, p. 604 ; Canestrini, Fauna d'ltalia, 

 Pesc. p. 7 ; Giglioli, Pesc. Ital. Catal. p. 51 ; Moreau, Poissons de la France, 

 i, p. 471. 



Acipenser Lichtensteinii, Bl. Schn. p. 348, t. lxix ; Brandt and Ratzeb. ii, 

 p. 21, t. ii, f. 1 (young). 



Acipenser latirostris, Parnell, Wern. Mem. vii, p. 405 and Fish. Firth of Forth, 

 p. 245, pi. xxxix (head), and Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, xiv, pi. iv ; 

 White, Catal. p. 121 ; Yarrell, 1. c. (ed. 2), ii, p. 479 (ed. 3) ii, p. 460. 



Acipenser Thompsoni, Ball, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. no. 25, p. 21, and in 

 Thompson's Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 245 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (ed. 3) ii, p. 442, 

 c. fig. 



Acipenser huso (no. 2), Bonnat. Ency. Ich. p. 16, pi. ix, f. 29; Thompson, 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, xvi, p. 213, and 1847, xx, p. 172 ; White, Catal. p. 121. 



Acipenser hospitus, Kroyer, Skand. Faun, iii, p. 780. 



Acipenser atillus, Gray, Chond. Fish. Brit. Mus. p. 13. 



Acipenser Yarrellii, Dumeril, Nouv. Arch. Mus. iii, p. 164. 



Sturgeon, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, i, p. 157, pi. xxxv. 



