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  THE 
  VERTEBEATE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  "DEE." 
  

  

  Family 
  SCOMBRESOCIME. 
  

  

  Genus 
  BELONE, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Belone 
  vulgaris, 
  Fkm, 
  "Gar-fish." 
  "Greenbone." 
  

   " 
  Greenben." 
  " 
  Faap 
  Mackerel." 
  " 
  Faap 
  Whaup." 
  

  

  Fairly 
  common 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  east 
  coast. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SCOMBRESOX, 
  Lacepede. 
  

   Scombresox 
  saurus, 
  Fkm. 
  Saury-pike. 
  

  

  " 
  Great 
  numbers 
  of 
  these 
  fish 
  were 
  thrown 
  ashore 
  on 
  the 
  

   sands 
  of 
  Leith, 
  near 
  Edinburgh, 
  after 
  a 
  great 
  storm 
  in 
  

   November, 
  1768. 
  The 
  Saury-pike 
  enters 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth 
  

   almost 
  every 
  autumn 
  in 
  considerable 
  shoals, 
  and, 
  being 
  stupid 
  

   inactive 
  fishes, 
  are 
  found 
  by 
  hundreds 
  on 
  the 
  shallows 
  when 
  

   the 
  tide 
  retires, 
  with 
  their 
  long 
  noses 
  embedded 
  in 
  the 
  mud." 
  

   (British 
  Zoology, 
  vol. 
  iii., 
  p. 
  431, 
  1812.) 
  

  

  " 
  According 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Neill 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  an 
  uncommon 
  fish 
  in 
  the 
  

   Firth 
  of 
  Forth, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  as 
  high 
  up 
  as 
  Kincardine, 
  

   but 
  of 
  late 
  years, 
  not 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  

   in 
  the 
  Firth." 
  (Parnell.) 
  

  

  Rare 
  on 
  Kincardine, 
  Aberdeen, 
  and 
  Banffshire 
  coasts, 
  

   an 
  occasional 
  one 
  being 
  cast 
  upon 
  the 
  beach 
  at 
  Aberdeen. 
  

  

  Family 
  CYPRINID^. 
  

  

  Genus 
  CYPRINUS, 
  Artecli. 
  

  

  Cyprinus 
  carpio, 
  Linn. 
  Carp. 
  

  

  " 
  These 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  great 
  abundance 
  in 
  the 
  ponds 
  of 
  

   Pitfour." 
  (Arbuthnot.) 
  Of 
  course 
  they 
  were 
  introduced. 
  

  

  Genus 
  GOBIO, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Gobio 
  fluviatilis, 
  Fkm. 
  Gudgeon. 
  

  

  In 
  October, 
  1892, 
  eleven 
  of 
  these 
  fishes 
  escaped 
  from 
  

   confinement 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  kept 
  by 
  James 
  Allan, 
  Esq. 
  of 
  

   Templand, 
  Auchterless, 
  from 
  whose 
  mill-dam 
  they 
  got 
  into 
  

   the 
  Ythan, 
  which 
  is 
  close 
  by. 
  Perhaps 
  at 
  some 
  future 
  time 
  

  

  