﻿FISHES. 
  

  

  248 
  

  

  Genus 
  AMMODYTES, 
  Artedi. 
  

   Ammodytes 
  lanceolatus, 
  Lesauvage. 
  Sand-lance. 
  "Ornals." 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  often 
  caught 
  by 
  line-fishers, 
  and 
  is 
  also 
  

   cast 
  upon 
  the 
  beach 
  after 
  storms. 
  

  

  Ammodytes 
  tobianus, 
  Linn. 
  Sand-eel. 
  "San'ils." 
  

  

  Abundant, 
  and 
  caught 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  to 
  be 
  used 
  as 
  bait 
  

   for 
  haddock 
  and 
  whiting. 
  A 
  delicious 
  article 
  of 
  food, 
  but 
  

   from 
  their 
  small 
  size 
  are 
  seldom 
  used 
  as 
  such. 
  

  

  " 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Southerland, 
  besyd 
  Spainzidell, 
  wher 
  

   the 
  inhabitants 
  doe 
  tak 
  a 
  kynd 
  of 
  fish 
  (called 
  Sandeels) 
  efter 
  

   this 
  manner. 
  At 
  high 
  streams 
  and 
  springs 
  in 
  summer, 
  when 
  

   the 
  sea 
  is 
  at 
  low 
  eb, 
  their 
  doth 
  appeir 
  in 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Port- 
  

   Necouter 
  some 
  banks 
  or 
  bedds 
  of 
  sand; 
  at 
  these 
  tymes 
  the 
  

   common 
  sort 
  of 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  doe 
  conveen 
  on 
  horsbak 
  to 
  

   the 
  number 
  of 
  six 
  or 
  seven 
  hundred 
  people, 
  and 
  so 
  doe 
  swim 
  

   towards 
  these 
  sands 
  ; 
  and 
  when 
  they 
  doe 
  aryve 
  upon 
  these 
  

   bedds 
  of 
  sand, 
  incontouent 
  they 
  run 
  their 
  horses 
  at 
  full 
  speed, 
  

   stryveing 
  who 
  can 
  first 
  aryve 
  at 
  the 
  fishing 
  place, 
  when 
  they 
  

   doe 
  endevoar 
  with 
  all 
  dilligence 
  to 
  tak 
  these 
  Sandeels 
  (not 
  

   unlike 
  unto 
  sprats) 
  whereof 
  they 
  tak 
  such 
  abundance 
  dureing 
  

   some 
  few 
  dayss 
  that 
  it 
  sufficeth 
  them 
  for 
  provision 
  of 
  that 
  

   kynd 
  of 
  fish 
  dureing 
  lent 
  and 
  the 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  yeir 
  following." 
  

   {The 
  Genealogy 
  of 
  the 
  Earls 
  of 
  Sutherland, 
  p. 
  5.) 
  

  

  Family 
  MACRUBIDiE, 
  Bichardson. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CORYPILENOIDES, 
  Gunner. 
  

  

  [Coryphaenoides 
  rupestris, 
  Collett. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  were 
  dredged 
  by 
  the 
  "Porcupine" 
  

   off 
  Shetland. 
  It 
  is 
  included 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Howden 
  in 
  his 
  list 
  as 
  

   local, 
  but 
  where 
  caught 
  or 
  where 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  is 
  not 
  stated.] 
  

  

  Family 
  PLEURONECTID^E, 
  Bisso. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HIPPOGLOSSUS, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Hippoglossus 
  vulgaris, 
  Flem. 
  Halibut. 
  When 
  young, 
  

   " 
  Birdies." 
  "Turbot." 
  "Blacksmiths," 
  when 
  o!d 
  and 
  

   biack. 
  

  

  Abundant, 
  and 
  caught 
  both 
  by 
  line 
  and 
  trawl. 
  

  

  