[1 860. | REPORTS AND PAPERS. 319 
To our great surprise we see that Mr. Newman, the editor of 
the Zoologist, who ever was a warm defender of the sea-serpent , 
and like Mr. Goss firmly believed that there are still living Ple- 
siosaurt, 1s of another opinion in 1860. In this year, a very large 
riband fish was captured on the Bermuda Isles. Three descriptions 
of this fish appeared in the Zoologist (p. 6934, p. 6986, p. 6989), 
the last by Mr. Newman himself, who, thinking that it was a 
new species, gave it the name of egalecus Jones. The second 
description was by Mr. Jones, the naturalist on the Bermudas, 
at whose deposal the fish was placed by Mr. Triminenam, the 
captor. Mr. Jones, after his description, points out some striking 
peculiarities, which this riband-fish and the sea-serpent seen by 
captain M’Quuar, had in common, and concludes that a part of 
the reports of the great sea-serpent must have been caused by the 
appearance of riband fishes. Now, Mr. Newman, after the des- 
cription of his new species Regalecus Jones, as I have already 
said, seems to waver in his opinion, for he adds: 
“In reference to the last question mooted by Mr. Jones, the 
similarity of Regalecus Jones to Capt. M’Quuan’s sea-serpent, I 
do not consider myself competent to express an opinion. I am quite 
willing for the present to allow every sea-serpent to hold on its 
own course; hereafter a better opportunity may be afforded on 
comparing and arranging the conflicting evidence already published 
in the “Zoologist.”’ 
ESS, UB4. — 1861? August. — (Zoologist , 1862, p. 7850). — 
“On a Sunday afternoon, in the middle of August, above a 
hundred persons, at that time in and about the hotel, were called 
on to observe an extraordinary appearance in the sea, at no great 
distance from the shore. Large shoals of small fish were rushing 
landwards in great commotion, leaping from the water, crowding 
on each other, and showing all the common symptoms of flight 
from the pursuit of some wicked enemy. I had already more than 
once remarked this appearance from the rocks, but in a minor 
degree; and on these occasions I could always distinguish the shark, 
whose ravages among the “manhaidens” was the cause of such alarm. 
But the particular case in question was far different from those. 
The pursuer of the fugiting shoals soon became visible; and that 
it was a huge marine monster, stretching to a length quite beyond 
