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Appendices to Fourth Annual Report 

 THE SPAWNING PEKIOD OF FOOD-FISHES. 



{Dates already verified are in heavier type. ) 

 TELEOSTEL 



Latin Name. 



English Name. 



Spawning period. 



Remarks. 



Percid^. 



Perca fiuviatilis. 



Ldbrax lupits. 



Acerina vulgaris. 

 Serranus cahrilla. 



Serranus gigas. 



Polyprion cer- 



nium. 

 Dentex vulgaris. 



MULLID^. 



Mullus harhatus. 

 Mullus surrnule- 

 tus. 



Sparid^. 



Cantharus line- 

 atus. 

 Box 



Pagrus aiiratiis. 



Pagellus centro- 

 dontus. 



SCORP^NIDiB. 



Sebastes norvegi- 

 cus. 



COTTID^. 



Coitus bubalis. 



Trigla lineata. 

 Trigla cuculus. 



Trigla hirundo. 



Trigla gurnardus. 



Trigla lyra. 

 Trigla obscura. 

 Trachinid^. 

 Trachinus draco. 



Trachinus vipera. 



Perch. 



Ruff. 

 Comber. 



Dusky perch. 



Stone basse. 

 Dentex. 



Red mullet. 

 Surmullet. 



Old wife. 

 Bogue, ox-eye. 



Gilt head. 



Sea bream. 



Bergylt, Norway 

 haddock or carp. 



Father lasher. 



Streaked gurnard. 

 Red gurnard. 



Tub-fish. 



Gray gurnard. 



Piper. 



Lanthorn gurnard. 

 Greater weever. 

 Lesser weever. 



March to May. 

 Early May in 



Loch Fadd, Bute. 



Summer months, 

 July and Aug. 

 (Couch) ; also 

 Feb. and March 

 (Naples). 



March and April 

 (Day). 



End of summer, or 

 Aug. to Sept. 

 (Day). 



April and May ; 

 March, Mediter- 

 ranean (Costa). 



Summer in Mediter- 

 ranean (Risso). 



Feb. and March, 

 Naples (Costa). 



(Variety of Mullus 

 barbatus, cf. Day's 

 British Fishes, 

 vol. i. p. 22.) 



July to Sept., on 

 south coast (Day). 



May, both varieties 

 (Naples). 



m summer 

 in Mediterranean 

 (Risso). 

 Winter months 

 (Day). 



Dec. and Jan. 

 (Day); April and 

 May (Lochfyne). 



April to June 



(Couch). 

 Jan. to June 



(Couch). 

 Dec. and Jan. ; June 



and July. 



Midsummer ? (Day). 



June on the Con 

 tinent. 



April, May, and 

 early June 

 (Yorkshire coast). 



May and early 



June, in confine- 

 ment (Roth. Aq.). 

 Said to deposit its 

 ova twice a year 

 on the Continent. 



Chiefly found in 

 warmer climates. 



Said to spawn twice 

 a year in warmer 

 climates. 



Eggs float, cf Sars, 

 Ami. mid Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ser. iv. 

 1868. 



Eggs float. 



