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burgh ; but it may have been brought from a di- 

 stance.] 



Zeus. 



Z. Faber. Doree ; John Dory. 



This is rarely met with in our Frith : it has 

 sometimes been entangled in trawl-nets in Goulan 

 Bay. 



Z. Luna. (Z. Opah\ Shaw). Opah, or King- 

 fish. 



Sir Robert Sibbald,in his " Prodromus," publish- 

 ed in the beginning of the 18th century, describes a 

 specimen of this uncommon and resplendent fish, 

 as having been taken * 1 near the North Ferry." 

 In the " Philosophical Transactions," and in 

 " British Zoology," v/e have accounts of the oc- 

 currence of three specimens on the coasts of our 

 island. The first was found near Leith in 1750; 

 the next was cast ashore near Newcastle in 1769 ; 

 the third was taken at Brixham in Torbay in 1772. 

 Mr Donovan, in his " Natural History of British 

 Fishes," mentions the subsequent occurrence of 

 other three specimens on the coast of Scotland, one 

 of which is in his own collection. Others still 

 have occurred. A few years ago, a very fine one 

 was taken off Cramond, and it is now in the mu- 

 seum of Patrick Walker, Esq; of this Society. 

 Another was, about the same time, found near 

 Burntisland, but not preserved ; and a third was 

 stranded on the beach at the little village 'of East 



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