540 CONCLUSIONS. 
(2) 1. e. evidently “in the dog days” (92, p. 138), viz. from the 
23th. of July to the 23th. of August, and when we consult those 
reports which mention the dates of the appearances we observe 
that they really appear along the Norwegian coasts in July (61, 
92, 115) and August (9, 64, 68, 117, 157), but that after the 
dog days they swim further south: from the 24th. of August to 
the 9th. of September one or more individuals appeared in Chris- 
tiania fjord (85, 86, 87, 88, 89), and in the month of October (?) 
an individual was observed near Ibbestad, in the neighbourhood 
of Christiansand (111 a). The occurrences between the Faroe Isles 
and the Hebrides took place in the last days of May (153, 154) 
and in July (56), those on the east coast of Scotland in the middle 
of November (141, 142, 143), those on the western coasts of Scot- 
land, Wales and England: in June in the neighbourhood of Coll 
and Higg (31, 32), in the last days of August in the neighbour- 
hood of Loch-Hourn (137, 138, 139, 140), in the beginning of 
September near Orme’s Heads, Wales, (155), and in the middle 
of October in Bristol Channel (156). The occurrence a hundred 
miles west of Brest, France, took place on the 5th. of August 
(152), that west of Portugal on the 31st. of December (120), that 
in the Mediterranean on the 2d. of June (148), that north-east of 
the Azores on the Ist. of August (25), that south of the Azores 
and west of the Canaries on the 30th. of March (128), that between 
the Canaries and Cape Verde on the 16th. of May (135), and those 
between Cape Verde and Cape of Good Hope and southwest of 
the latter: on January 26 (132), February 16 (130), July 8 (129), 
in the end of July (93), in the summer (114), on August 6 (118), 
on November 12 (152 4), and on December 12 (131). 
HeEDE saw an individual in Davis’ Straits in July (5); the sea- 
serpents frequent the coast of North America from Newfoundland 
to Florida in February (121), March or April (101), May (19, 97, 
161), June (34, 35, 53, 54, 60, 83, 84, 106 8B?, 162), July 9, 
55, 75?, 81?, 98, 99, 100?), August (87, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 
43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 62, 638, 69, 73, 105?, 183, 134, 
158, 159, 160), September (70, 71, 77, 106°), and October (50, 51). 
It occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April (106 a), was east of 
Cape San Roque in July (144, 145), and visited the South Atlantic 
east of Uruguay in January (80). 
January was the month in which it appeared in the Gulf of 
Aden (149), September in about lat. 15° S. and 60° EH. (128), 
May in about lat. 2° N. and long. 91° HE. (147), September in the 
