﻿FISHES. 
  

  

  271 
  

  

  Aberdeen, 
  but 
  as 
  no 
  buyer 
  came 
  forward, 
  it 
  was 
  sent 
  south, 
  

   but 
  what 
  was 
  its 
  ultimate 
  fate 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  know. 
  Another 
  was 
  

   caught 
  off 
  Fraserburgh, 
  November, 
  1884, 
  and 
  on 
  September 
  

   10th, 
  1895, 
  a 
  male, 
  15 
  feet 
  long, 
  was 
  caught 
  in 
  a 
  herring 
  net 
  

   twenty 
  miles 
  off 
  Aberdeen 
  and 
  brought 
  to 
  the 
  port. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SELACHE, 
  Cuvier. 
  

   Selache 
  maxima, 
  Cuvier. 
  Basking 
  Shark. 
  

  

  "We 
  have 
  occasionally 
  seen 
  specimens 
  of 
  these 
  fishes 
  

   upon 
  our 
  coasts." 
  (Arbuthnot.) 
  

  

  " 
  Dr. 
  Neill 
  states 
  in 
  the 
  Wern. 
  Trans., 
  vol. 
  i., 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  

   common 
  in 
  the 
  Scottish 
  seas, 
  occasionally, 
  though 
  seldom, 
  

   entering 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth." 
  (Parnell.) 
  

  

  One, 
  now 
  in 
  Montrose 
  Museum, 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  

   near 
  the 
  Bell 
  Rock 
  ; 
  another, 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  College 
  

   Museum, 
  Dundee, 
  was 
  caught 
  off 
  that 
  port 
  in 
  1890. 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  reported 
  in 
  the 
  Aberdeen 
  Evening 
  Express 
  as 
  

   having 
  been 
  cast 
  ashore 
  at 
  Portgordon, 
  13th 
  October, 
  1899. 
  

   I 
  went 
  to 
  see 
  it, 
  and 
  found 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  male, 
  measuring 
  

   27 
  feet 
  9 
  inches 
  in 
  length 
  ; 
  the 
  tail 
  measured 
  from 
  point 
  

   to 
  point 
  6 
  feet, 
  and 
  the 
  claspers 
  3 
  feet 
  6 
  inches. 
  From 
  

   the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  fish, 
  it 
  was 
  evidently 
  the 
  same 
  specimen 
  

   as 
  was 
  reported 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  cast 
  up 
  at 
  Garmouth 
  a 
  few 
  

   days 
  before. 
  

  

  Family 
  NOTIDANIDiE. 
  

  

  Genus 
  NOTIDANUS, 
  Cuvier. 
  

  

  Notidanus 
  griseus, 
  Cuv. 
  Brown 
  or 
  Mediterranean 
  Shark. 
  

   Six-gilled 
  Shark. 
  

  

  "A 
  large 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  Shark 
  was 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Firth 
  

   here, 
  and 
  brought 
  on 
  shore 
  at 
  Whitehills 
  in 
  December, 
  

   1857. 
  ... 
  It 
  was 
  bought 
  for 
  Banff 
  Museum." 
  (Edward.) 
  

  

  Entered 
  as 
  "local" 
  in 
  Howden's 
  list, 
  with 
  no 
  indication 
  

   of 
  locality. 
  Many 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  

   into 
  Aberdeen 
  Market 
  of 
  recent 
  years, 
  but 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  

   was 
  caught 
  within 
  our 
  area. 
  

  

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