﻿FISHES. 
  

  

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  Family 
  SCORP^NID^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SEBASTES, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Sebastes 
  viviparus, 
  Kroger. 
  " 
  Norway 
  Haddock. 
  

   "Bergylt." 
  c< 
  Jerusalem 
  Haddock." 
  "Runkie." 
  

  

  Four 
  examples 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  were 
  brought 
  into 
  Aberdeen 
  

   Market, 
  October 
  24th, 
  1892 
  ; 
  though, 
  since 
  the 
  advent 
  of 
  

   trawling 
  in 
  Aberdeen, 
  this 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  an 
  uncommon 
  

   species, 
  it 
  being 
  frequently 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  the 
  hundredweight. 
  

  

  A 
  considerable 
  amount 
  of 
  doubt 
  hangs 
  around 
  this 
  fish. 
  

   Collett 
  holds 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  merely 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  S. 
  norvegiciis, 
  and 
  

   Day 
  follows 
  him. 
  Kroyer 
  and 
  Lutken 
  take 
  the 
  opposite 
  view, 
  

   believing 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  distinct 
  species 
  ; 
  but 
  from 
  the 
  numbers 
  I 
  

   have 
  examined 
  — 
  of 
  both 
  forms 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  

   identical. 
  

  

  Day 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  asserted 
  that 
  the 
  young 
  come 
  forth 
  

   alive." 
  Couch 
  remarks 
  of 
  the 
  young: 
  "It 
  is 
  even 
  supposed, 
  

   on 
  good 
  evidence, 
  that 
  they 
  proceed 
  from 
  the 
  mother 
  alive." 
  

   I 
  am 
  in 
  a 
  position 
  to 
  state 
  that 
  the 
  young 
  are 
  brought 
  

   forth 
  alive, 
  having 
  in 
  my 
  possession 
  a 
  female 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  

   young 
  are 
  ready 
  for 
  expulsion, 
  and 
  were 
  all 
  alive 
  when 
  the 
  

   fish 
  was 
  obtained, 
  each 
  young 
  one 
  being 
  about 
  one-fourth 
  of 
  

   an 
  inch 
  long. 
  This 
  specimen 
  was 
  caught 
  on 
  April 
  18th, 
  1887. 
  

   Again, 
  on 
  June 
  26th, 
  1901, 
  I 
  had 
  eight 
  others 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   condition. 
  

  

  Scorpsena 
  dactyloptera, 
  Giinther. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  an 
  abundant 
  species 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  of 
  Scotland, 
  

   but 
  local. 
  It 
  is 
  caught 
  in 
  numbers 
  off 
  Fraserburgh 
  ; 
  one 
  

   hundredweight 
  was 
  caught 
  there 
  by 
  line 
  in 
  1889, 
  some 
  of 
  

   them 
  being 
  from 
  eighteen 
  to 
  twenty 
  inches 
  long. 
  Thirty-nine 
  

   were 
  taken 
  by 
  trawl, 
  off 
  Troup 
  Head, 
  May 
  19th, 
  1890 
  ; 
  and 
  on 
  

   June 
  23rd 
  following 
  two 
  hundredweights 
  were 
  caught 
  by 
  

   trawl 
  off 
  Kinnaird 
  Head. 
  Again, 
  on 
  July 
  9th, 
  four 
  and 
  one- 
  

   half 
  hundredweights 
  were 
  got 
  by 
  trawl 
  off 
  Troup 
  Head 
  ; 
  and 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  locality, 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  means, 
  on 
  22nd 
  July, 
  one 
  

   hundredweight. 
  On 
  March 
  26th, 
  1891, 
  two 
  hundredweights 
  

   were 
  caught 
  by 
  trawl 
  off 
  Buchan 
  Ness, 
  and 
  two 
  hundred- 
  

   weights 
  from 
  same 
  locality, 
  May 
  13th, 
  1892. 
  This 
  was 
  

  

  