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  THE 
  VEETEBEATE 
  FAUNA 
  OF 
  "DEE." 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  caught 
  by 
  trawl 
  twenty 
  miles 
  off 
  Kinnaird 
  Head, 
  

   March 
  13th, 
  1899. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  female, 
  24 
  inches 
  long, 
  and 
  I 
  am 
  

   indebted 
  for 
  it 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Howell. 
  

  

  Family 
  LAMNID^E. 
  

  

  Genus 
  LAMNA, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Lamna 
  cornubica, 
  Cuv. 
  Porbeagle. 
  " 
  Portugal 
  Shark." 
  

   " 
  Sheer-dog." 
  

  

  "We 
  occasionally 
  meet 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  these 
  upon 
  our 
  coast.'' 
  

   (Arbuthnot.) 
  " 
  Several 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Firth 
  

   of 
  Forth, 
  principally 
  in 
  the 
  herring 
  nets." 
  (Parnell.) 
  " 
  One 
  

   caught 
  at 
  Lossiemouth 
  in 
  a 
  salmon 
  net, 
  August 
  25th, 
  1845." 
  

   (Gordon.) 
  " 
  It 
  is 
  now 
  well 
  known 
  that 
  the 
  Porbeagle 
  finds 
  

   its 
  way 
  here 
  occasionally, 
  and 
  usually 
  about 
  the 
  herring 
  

   season." 
  (Edward.) 
  "A 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  Dunrobin 
  Museum, 
  

   caught 
  in 
  Loch 
  Inver, 
  1875. 
  Another 
  caught 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   loch, 
  1881. 
  Pretty 
  often 
  at 
  Wick." 
  (Harvie-Brown 
  and 
  

   Buckley.) 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  often 
  seen 
  this 
  species 
  brought 
  on 
  shore 
  in 
  mid- 
  

   winter, 
  and 
  upon 
  the 
  18th 
  of 
  January, 
  1887, 
  I 
  opened 
  a 
  female 
  

   in 
  which 
  there 
  were 
  four 
  fully- 
  formed 
  young. 
  From 
  this 
  I 
  

   am 
  disposed 
  to 
  think 
  that 
  the 
  Porbeagle 
  is 
  a 
  regular 
  and 
  

   constant 
  inhabitant 
  of 
  British 
  waters, 
  and 
  also 
  that 
  it 
  cannot 
  

   be 
  called 
  rare. 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  more 
  frequently 
  caught 
  by 
  

   trawl 
  than 
  by 
  any 
  other 
  mode 
  of 
  fishing. 
  As 
  an 
  article 
  of 
  

   food, 
  the 
  young 
  is 
  excellent. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ALOPIAS, 
  Bafinesqm. 
  

  

  Alopias 
  vulpes, 
  Bonap. 
  "Thrasher." 
  "Thrasher 
  Shark." 
  

   " 
  Fox 
  Shark." 
  

  

  " 
  A 
  specimen 
  was 
  taken 
  off 
  Fortrose, 
  Moray 
  Firth, 
  1846." 
  

   (Martin.) 
  " 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  learn, 
  this 
  Shark 
  

   appears 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  rarely 
  met 
  with 
  here." 
  (Edward.) 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  was 
  caught 
  at 
  Dunninald 
  in 
  1880, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  

   in 
  Montrose 
  Museum. 
  One 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  Fraserburgh, 
  

   August 
  30th, 
  1884, 
  extreme 
  length 
  14 
  feet 
  8 
  inches, 
  the 
  tail 
  

   measuring 
  half 
  the 
  length. 
  It 
  was 
  offered 
  for 
  sale 
  in 
  

  

  