Fishes. 3847 



^Equoreal Pipe-fish, Syngnathus aquoreus. Not rare. 

 Snake Pipe-fish, Syngnathus anguineus. Not uncommon. 

 Worm Pipe-fish, Syngnathus lumbriciformis. Common. 



Hippocampidce. 



Short-nosed Hippocampus, Hippocampus brevirostris. One dead 

 specimen obtained. 



Order V. — Plectognathi. 

 Gymnodontidce. 



Pennant's Globe-fish, Tetrodon Pennantii. Very rare. Two spe- 

 cimens have occurred in Orkney. 



Short Sun-fish, Orthagoriscus mola. Has been obtained on two or 

 three occasions. 



Oblong Sun- fish, Orthagoriscus oblongus. One specimen obtained 

 in Orkney. 



Balistidce. 



European File-fish, Batistes capriscus. One specimen obtained in 

 North Ronaldsey, about 1827 or 1828, is at present in the possession 

 of William Traill, Esq., of Woodwick. 



Wm. Balfour Baikie. 

 Haslar Hospital, Gosport, March 2, 1853. 



(To be continued.) 



Occurrence of Herrings in the Lakes of Killarney. — At a meeting of the Dublin 

 Natural History Society on the 11th of January, 1853, Mr. Ffennell, Inspecting Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, said that in one of his tours of duty, when inspecting the sal- 

 mon-fisheries in the neighbourhood of Killarney, he was much surprised to find taken 

 in the sa]mon-nets what he at the time considered to be the pollan. He had, at a 

 meeting of the Society last session, mentioned several widely situated localities where 

 pollan had been met with in this country, and he was therefore pleased at being able 

 to trace their existence still further. This was in the month of May last. The mat- 

 ter escaped his further attention, until Mr. Mulvanny, Commissioner, accidentally saw 

 the specimens that he (Mr. Ffennell) had obtained and preserved in spirits, and at 

 once pronounced them to be the true herring, identical with those taken on this coast, 

 noticing at the same time the absence of the fatty dorsal fin which characterized the 

 pollan and the trout species. A fact so interesting led Mr. Ffennell to make more full 

 inquiries, and he found that the herring abounded at seasons in the lakes at Killarney, 

 and that they could be taken in numbers. Although very frequently taken in the sal- 

 mon-nets, the fishermen, by whom whom they were known as and called " goureens," 



