PISCES. 



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SPARIDjE.—^k Breams). 



Black Bream. ( Cantharm Griseus). Old wife. Stone basse. 

 Common in some localities (off Binsey and Trewavas Heads 

 in Monnt's Bay for instance), bnt usually rare. An excellent 

 fish for the table. 



Bogue. (Boops vulgaris). Box. Ox-eye. Bare. 



Becker. (Pagrus vulgaris). Braise. Not common, and when 

 occurring frequently confounded with common bream. An 

 excellent table fish. 



Couch's Sea Bream. (Pagellus Rondeletii). Only a single speci- 

 men is recorded. 



Spanish Bream. (P. Erythrinus). Couch in 11 British Fishes," 

 distinguishes this from Erythrinus (so called by him as its 

 English name), but I am confident that the difference ? 

 between the two fish are only those caused by size and 

 accidental circumstances. 



Bream. (P. centrodontus J . When half -grown, " Plosher." 

 When young, "Chad." Common everywhere. 



Short Sea-Bream. (P. CurtusJ. Distinguished by Couch in his 

 British Fishes but only one specimen is recorded. 



Gilthead. (Chrysophrys Aurata). Rare. Last recorded occur- 

 rence off Land's End, 1st March, 1870. 

 Couch here follows with : — 



Rays Bream {Brama Raii), which is not a Bream at all, but one 

 of the scalerayed (squammipennes) family. Natives usually 

 of the tropics. This fish has occurred several times, but 

 always, thus far, in an exhausted state, wave-beaten on a 

 beach. 



On 9th October, 1874, a specimen of another scalerayed fish 

 occurred alive in Mount's Bay. It was identified as one of the 

 Family Pimelepterus (Cuvier), and named P. Cornubiensis. It also 

 is tropical, and has no English name. It is described in Zoologist, 

 2nd series, No. Ill, p. 4255, December, 1874. 



SCOMBERIDJE.—(Tim Mackarel Tribe). 



Mackarel. (Scomber scombrus). Common. Having taken the 

 opportunity of a voyage from the iScilly Islands in the busy 

 part of the mackarel season of 1874, to inspect over 15000, 



* There were over 60,000 mackerel on board, but 45,000 were packed in "pads" before 

 we started. 



