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Part III. — Tirenfy-first Amuial Report 



VII.— ICHTHYOLOGICAL XOTES. 



By Dr. T. Wemyss Fulton. 



COXTEXTS. 



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Stiu'geon, 



Chimfpra monstrosa, 

 King-fish. 



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Mailer's Topknot, 

 Ballan Wrasse, - 

 Bass, 



Mutilated Plaice, 

 Common Sole, - 

 Norway Lobster, 



The Sexes among Rays, 



Sturgeon. 



Sturgeons are occasionally caught in the trawl-net and brought to 

 market, and they are as a rule taken near the land in moderate depths of 

 water : most of those got last year were captured off the coast of Aber- 

 deen. On 27th January one weighing 2|- cwts. was caught fifty miles 

 E.N.E. from Aberdeen, about thirty miles east from Peterhead, where 

 the water, on the chart, is about sixty fathoms. Another was secured 

 on 3rd February, "^which weighed 98 pounds, twenty-four miles S.E. J E., 

 in about forty fathoms. A third on 27th May 170 miles N.E. by E.from 

 Aberdeen, in from sixty-five to seventy fathoms, nearly midway between 

 the Orkneys and Norway, weighed three cwts. and was nine feet long by 

 three-and-a-half feet in girth ; it sold for <£8 2s. Another sturgeon, a 

 little shorter, measuring eight feet long, by three feet one inch in girth, 

 weighed two cwts,, and was caught on 29th July eighteen miles E.S.E. 

 from Aberdeen. A fifth was taken on 20th December fourteen miles 

 E.N.E. from Aberdeen, in from thirty to forty fathoms; it was a small 

 specimen, weighing only forty- three pounds. A sixth was taken on 22nd 

 December, twelve miles S. | E. from Girdleness, Aberdeen, in chirty- 

 five fathoms. It weighed seventy-seven pounds, and sold for £Z 8s. 

 The localities are indicated on the chart (Plate I., S 1-S 6). 



Specimens of this form are not very uncommon in the Fish-market. 

 One was taken on 15th February, twenty-three miles east-south-east of 

 Aberdeen, in about forty fathoms, and another by a liner, on 5th July, 

 one hundred miles north and by east from Xorth Eonaldshay, Orkney 

 Islands, in deep water. 



Specimens of this species are also occasionally brought in by the 

 liners working to the westwards of the Shetland and Orkney Isles. 

 On 7th June one was caught eighty miles jST. by from Hoy, 

 Orkneys ; on 5th July two were taken one hundred miles X. and by E. 

 from North Ronaldshay ; and on 22nd August, another, about 201 



KiXG-FiSH {Lampri^ Juna). 



