﻿President's Address. 



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■^Norwegian or Ekstrom's Topknot, Rhombus (Scophthalmus) 

 norvegicus, Giinth. — One, a ? , 3|- inches in length, was captured 

 on a fisherman's line 10 miles S.E. of the Carr Lightship [say 

 about 5 miles east of Isle of May], 6th April 1893 (Prof. W. 0. 

 M'Intosh, Twelfth Eept. Fish. Board Scot., pt. iii. (1894) p. 227). 



Loach, Gohitis harhatida, L. — Widespread and locally 

 common. Braid Burn, Lothian Burn, Tyne, Beil Burn, stream 

 flowing out of Kinghorn Loch, and near St Andrews (Evans, 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 127). Common in Threipmuir 

 Reservoir, at the base of the Pentlands, where I found it plenti- 

 fully in the bed of the stream in September 1905, when the 

 water was unusually low. I mention these facts in view of a 

 recent statement in Sim's Vertebrate Fauna of Dee, implying 

 that the Loach is very rare in the east of Scotland. 



Anchovy, Engraulis encrasicholus (L.) — A few captured near 

 the mouth of the Forth by herring fishermen, January 1890 

 (Prof. J. C. Ewart, Proc. Roy. Fhys. Soc. Edin , x. p. 333). 

 One caught in herring-net off Buckhaven, 28th January 1902 

 (Fulton, Twentieth Rept. Fish. Board Scot., pt. iii. p. 539). 



^quorean Pipe-Fish, Nerophis cequoreus (L.) — One obtained 

 at Station IV., i.e., South Bay, off Musselburgh (F. G. Pearcey, 

 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow (1900-1901), vi., n.s., p. 232). 



I have seen a specimen, 18 inches long, which was caught in a 

 crab-creel near North Berwick in November 1907, and I have 

 one, 15 J inches, taken in the same manner off Dunbar on 

 23rd October 1908. 



Short Sun-Fish, Orthagoriscus mola (L.) — One, 4| feet in 

 length, and 6 feet from tip to tip of fins, captured at North 

 Berwick, 28th September 1905. Attached to it, behind the anal 

 fin, were a few specimens of the parasitic Copepod, Lcemargus 

 (Orthagoriscola) muricatus, Kroy. (Evans, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1906, p. 57). Another, "about a stone in weight," was caught 

 near Dunbar in October 1908. 



Porbeagle, Lamna cornubica (Gm.) — One, fully 7 feet long, 

 caught in cod-net about 3 miles off Fisherrow, 1st November 

 1904 (Evans, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, p. 56). 



Greenland Shark, Somniosus microcephalus (Bl.) — One, 



II feet in length, which came ashore alive at North 

 Queen sferry on 10th April 1906, was examined by me the 

 following day. In its gills were numbers of the curious 

 Trematode, Onchocotyle appendiculata (Kuhn) (Evans, Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 187). 



Angel-Fish or Monk-Fish, Rhina squatina (L.) — There is 

 a small specimen in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, from 

 "off Isle of May"; it was sent by Mr Ross, lighthouse super- 

 intendent, about a dozen years ago. 



Note. — The Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus, L.) has been 

 brought in by trawlers from the fishing grounds 30 to 40 miles 

 outside the Isle of May, but I am not aware that it has ever 

 been caught within our limits. Carp {Cyprinus carpio, L.) 



