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the meshes are smaller, and larval and post-larval stages are taken in the 

 tow-nets. The latter may be lirst dealt with. In August and September 

 forms ranging up to 16 millimetres in length were taken in the Moray- 

 Firth ; and at the end of October one 12mm. long (= \ an inch), was 

 taken in the same area. 



Date. 



No. 



Size. 



Locality. 



Net. 







August 8th, 1895. 



1 



13mm. 



Moray Firth, IX. 



Surface. 



m 9th, 



1 



11mm. 



XIII. 



Midwater. 



5 J 55 



2 



13 and 15mm. 



XIV. 



55 



„ 25th, 1896. 



2 



5 and 10mm. 



VI. 



Surface. 





2 



6mm. 



VI. 



Bottom. 



" 55 



1 



11mm. 



VII. 



Surface. 





g 



K — C TY\ T¥l 

 ts*OilllII« 



VIII. 



Tariff nm 





1 



10mm. 



55 55 



Surface. 





4 



7-5-8'5mm. 



5 5 5 5 



Bottom. 





3 



5-7mm. 



IX. 





„ 26th, „ 



5 



5-1 0mm. 



X. 





„ 29th, 1894. 



1 



16mm. 



Firth of Forth, IX. 



55 



Sept. 21st, 1896. 



1 



4mm. 



Moray Firth, II. 



Surface. 





4 



10-llmm. 



5 5 5 5 



55 



Oct. 29th, 1894. 



1 



12mm. 



„ off Burgh ead. 



M 



Some of these were evidently recently hatched. The occurrence of a 

 post-larval form of 12mm. so late as the 29th October is of interest. On 

 the same date in another year (1891) a young gurnard of 29mm. (lgin ) 

 was procured in the bottom tow-net in Largo Bay, Firth of Forth. On 

 2nd September 1892 — nearly two months earlier — a specimen of 32mm. 

 (1 \ inch) and another of 42mm. (1| inch) were obtained in the bottom tow- 

 net at Station VI in the Moray Firth, which clearly belong to the same 

 season and are probably from three to four months old. By means of the 

 shrimp-net young gurnards about the same size and very little larger were 

 procured in November in the Clyde, viz. — under two inches and some 

 between two and three inches. The gurnards caught by the shrimp-net on 

 the bottom, under three inches in length, are as follows :— 



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