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pean Sting Raj) was brought into the fish market of Jersey 

 in the autumn of 1894. I was unable to identify the specimen 

 on first view, and on returning to the market, was sorry to 

 find that it had been taken away in the meantime, and I could 

 not discover what had become of it. 



The above hst comprises ninety species of sea-fish that 

 occur regularly on our shores, either residential or periodically 

 visiting. These, with six fresh-water species, and a few 

 extremely rare fish which have been captured in our waters, 

 but only in isolated instances, form altogether a total of about 

 one hundred fishes found in the Channel Islands. 



In regard to the confusion which has existed, and still 

 exists, in fish nomenclature, I may point out the instances of the 

 same name, both generic and specific, being applied to different 

 species, which will be noted in the Dogfishes and the Sand- 

 eels. Then there is the mistaking of sexes and young, and 

 describing them as distinct — and of this I have given several 

 examples. 



That this list is open to criticism I have no doubt ; but it 

 cannot be laid to my charge that I have admitted species for 

 which there is no ground. The fault will lie no doubt on the 

 side of omission. I may -repeat that all the fishes named have 

 come under my own observation, and I cannot find authentic 

 record of the occurrence of any other species. It is true that 

 I have not been in touch with the fishermen of Alderney, and 

 it is possible that captures may have been made there, of 

 which I have no knowledge. 



Those species in the foregoing pages which are marked 

 with an asterisk (fifty-two in all) are represented in the 

 ('oUection of Fishes in the Guille-Alles Museum, Guernsey. 



