NOTES AND QUERIES. 41 



at the western end of the island, he found a large Blue Shark (Charcarias 

 glaucus) thrown up by the surf at high-water mark. The fish was dead, 

 but quite fresh, and was one of the largest I have ever heard of on the Irish 

 coast, measuring between nine and ten feet in length. Another specimen 

 of this Shark was taken in the estuary about Nov. 22nd by two persons who 

 were out wildfowl shooting amongst the islands of the estuary. Heariug a 

 splashing in the water some distance astern of their boat they turned, and, 

 rowing up to where the noise proceeded from, found the fish aground, 

 floundering in the shallow water, unable to swim away. Killing it with a 

 couple of shots, they with great difficulty got it on board the boat, as it 

 measured about eight feet in length, and was very heavy. — Robert 

 Warren (Moyview, Ballina). 



