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spinners were found, two of which had Mr. Hearder's name, and 195, High 

 Street, still visible upon them ; while no mark was present to indicate who had 

 been the manufacturer of the third. There were also several whiting hooks, 

 a good indication of how it had been employing its time attending upon the line 

 fishers. One 9 feet long was captured on a mackerel line, July 14, 1881, about 

 twelves miles north of Deadmans, and landed at Mevagissey, from it Mr. Dunn 

 obtained an Echeneis remora. On the Galway coast it is taken both on long 

 lines and in nets. 



Breeding. — The female specimen, described by Pennant, is said to have 

 contained two embryos. 



As food. — Is not eaten in this country, but esteemed in some parts of France. 



Habitat. — North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Japan, and New Zealand (Haast). 



Not rare in the Orkneys and Shetlands (W. Baikie, Zool. 1853, p. 3846) : has 

 been taken at Wick, 7\ feet long, in March, 1880 (Reid) : Gordon (Zool. p. 3847) 

 mentions the securing, in a salmon net, one out of five seen sporting in the bay of 

 Lossiemouth, August 25th, 1825 : is occasionally captured off Banffshire, usually 

 about the herring season (Edward) : Aberdeen (Sim) : Firth of Forth now and 

 then, once taken in a salmon net and twice on haddock lines (Neill) : Berwickshire 

 examples are seen in the bay from 5 to 8 feet in length (Johnston) : Wallis's 

 shark was taken in the Tweed, a little above the bridge, in September, 1757 : a 

 specimen, 2| feet long, is in the Edinburgh Museum. Occasionally taken off 

 Scarborough and Whitby (Yorkshire Vertebrata) : at Bridlington, in the middle 

 of August, 1883, four specimens were captured in the bay, one of which was 

 8 feet long (W. Eagle Clarke, Miss.) : Yarmouth (Paget) where, July 4th, 1867, a 

 crew of a lugger engaged mackerel fishing took one 11 feet 5 inches long (Gunn) : 

 November llth, 1880, one 25| inches long was stranded alive at Overstrand 

 (T. Southwell) : in September, 1867, one 8 1 feet long has been recorded from off 

 Margate (Gerrard) : Hastings (Pennant and Goodenough) : Bowerbank recorded 

 one a little over 4 feet in length taken off the same place, June 18th, 1873, and a 

 second August 24th, 1874, 8| feet long, captured five miles off shore. On 

 August 8th, 1858, one 6 feet 8| inches long was recorded as having been taken at 

 night in a mackerel net in Seaford Bay (Sussex Express, August 15) : two or 

 three taken on the north coast of Devonshire at Cloverly in 1871, and on April 

 27th, 1835, Mr. Bellamy recorded one 8 feet long, containing five young ones 

 (Parfitt) : at Mevagissey Mr. Dunn observed on a pair taken in June, 1881, the 

 male was 9| feet long, female 8^ long : Cornwall, common (Couch) : at Swansea 

 one was washed against the east pier in a storm in October, 1835, and picked up 

 nearly dead (Dillwyn) : Beaumaris (Pennant). 



In Ireland.— Occasionally taken on different parts of the coast: one 5 feet 

 11 inches long in 1815, in Belfast Lotigh in a herring net (Templeton) : one 45 

 inches long in Dublin Bay in September, 1838 : one about 4 feet long at Youghal 

 in 1824 (Ball) ; on long lines off Galway, also in nets (Nimmo). 



The example figured is 33 inches long, a young male, received from Mr. Dunn. 

 The fish must attain to 11 or 12 feet in length if Mr. Gunn's was this species; it 

 has several times been captured up to 10 feet. 



