﻿FISHES. 
  

  

  209 
  

  

  Family 
  SPARID^, 
  Cuv. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CANTHARUS, 
  Cuv. 
  

  

  [Cantharus 
  lineatus, 
  Thomson. 
  " 
  Black 
  Bream." 
  

   " 
  Old 
  Wife." 
  

  

  "A 
  few 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  generally 
  procured 
  every 
  autumn 
  or 
  

   about 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  winter." 
  (Edward.)] 
  

  

  Genus 
  PAGRUS, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Pagrus 
  auratus, 
  Steind. 
  Gilthead. 
  

  

  Edward 
  observes 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  have 
  only 
  seen 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  

   fish 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  procured 
  with 
  us. 
  The 
  one 
  was 
  taken 
  

   off 
  Buckie 
  in 
  1841, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  was 
  brought 
  on 
  shore 
  at 
  

   Portsoy 
  in 
  1839." 
  

  

  One 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Spams 
  auratus 
  is 
  in 
  Dr. 
  Fleming's 
  

   collection, 
  Arbroath 
  Museum, 
  which, 
  he 
  says, 
  was 
  caught 
  in 
  

   the 
  estuary 
  of 
  the 
  Tay 
  in 
  August. 
  The 
  state 
  of 
  the 
  specimen 
  

   was 
  such 
  as 
  to 
  make 
  identification 
  very 
  difficult 
  when 
  seen 
  by 
  

   me. 
  Day, 
  in 
  his 
  British 
  Fishes, 
  says 
  that 
  " 
  Fleming's 
  specimen 
  

   is 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  Pagellus 
  centrodontus" 
  

  

  Genus 
  PAGELLUS, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Pagellus 
  centrodontus, 
  Cuv. 
  and 
  Vol, 
  The 
  Sea 
  Bream. 
  

  

  " 
  Perch." 
  

  

  In 
  Parnell's 
  Fishes 
  of 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth 
  (1839), 
  p. 
  208, 
  it 
  is 
  

   said 
  : 
  "In 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth 
  very 
  little 
  is 
  known 
  regarding 
  

   this 
  fish, 
  as 
  its 
  appearance 
  there 
  is 
  of 
  rare 
  occurrence. 
  Two 
  

   specimens, 
  however, 
  have 
  been 
  noticed 
  in 
  the 
  Forth 
  : 
  the 
  one 
  

   was 
  taken 
  with 
  a 
  line 
  bated 
  for 
  cod, 
  near 
  Inchcolm, 
  in 
  the 
  

   month 
  of 
  July; 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  salmon 
  net 
  

   above 
  Queensferry." 
  

  

  In 
  Couch's 
  History 
  of 
  the 
  Fishes 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Islands, 
  vol. 
  i., 
  

   p. 
  238, 
  he 
  remarks 
  : 
  " 
  It 
  is 
  known 
  from 
  one 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  