of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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April to December there has been scarcely any material supplied to aid 

 in studying the various questions relating to this important subject. 



Mr Thomas Scott has had charge of the identification of speci- 

 mens, and I am also indebted to him for the two tables in this Report. 



In the following table an endeavour has been made, first, to identify as 

 far as possible the contents of the various stomachs ; and, secondly, to 

 show the relative frequency and quantity of the various classes of 

 organisms in the stomachs from the different localities. It has, of course, 

 frequently happened that the food has been too far digested to allow 

 of its identification. It appears from notes accompanying the material 

 that fully 200 stomachs were examined, and of these 28 were found to 

 contain no food. 



TABLE I.— Classification of the Food Material identified, giving the number 

 of Stomachs in which each Species occurred. 





No. of 







Stomachs 





Name. 



in which 

 Specimens 



were 

 observed. 



Remarks. 



XX X X^XV\J/> Wix 







Sertularicc, sp., ..... 



4 



Four pieces only. 



ACTINOZOA — 







An Actinian, . . . 



1 



) ioo much digested to be 

 ( identified. 



ECHINODERMATA — 







Ophioglypha alhida (Forbes), 



a 

 0 



Not very many. 



AtnphiuTCb JilifoTinis (Miill), . . . ~ 



7 



Very abundant. 



Ophiothrix pentaphyllum (Penn. ), 



1 Q 



i.y 



Asterias aurantiaca (L,), 



i 



A very young specimen. 



Echinus miliaris (L,), . 



i 



Two or three young specimens. 

 A good many specimens. 

 Fragments of test. 



Echinocy amies pusillus (Miill), 



iU 



Spatangus purpureus (Leske), 



1 





2 





Annelida— 







Aphrodite aculeata (L.), 



5 



f Specimens more or less 







\ digested. 



Aphrodite hystrix, 



1 



( A single specimen nearly 

 \ whole. 



Arenicola, sp., 



1 



Specimen fragmentary. 



Errantia group, 



14 



M uch digested remains. 



Tuhicolous annelid, .... 



1 



Part of worm and tube. 



Tubes of annelids, .... 



2 



Arenaceous tubes. 



Crustacea— 







Hyas coarctatus (Leach), 



4 





Portunus pusillus (Leacli) . 



1 





Portunus marmorexLs (Leach) 



1 



Young specimen. 



Pinnotheres pisum (Penn) 



1 



A few of fair size. 



Porcellana longicornis (Penn), 



1 



Two specimens nearly whole. 



Pagurus Bernhardus (L.), . 



8 



( Specimens more or less 

 ( digested. 



Pagurus ferrugineus (Norm) ? 



1 





Calocaris Macandrece (Bell), 



1 



Two or three specimens. 



A Brachyurous crab, .... 



2 



Much digested. 



Galatliea, sp., 



10 



( Very immature and frag- 

 \ mentary. 



Crangon Allmani (Kinahan), 



4 



Hippolyte spimis (Sowerby), 



1 





Hijypolyte, sp., ? 



Cuvia scorpioides (Kowi.), . 



2 



Fragmentary. 



1 



A number of specimens. 



Amphipods, 



7 



Isopod, 



1 





Philamedes interpuncta (Baird), . 







1 



