of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 
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somewhat in different places. Loch Coulter is joined to the river Forth 
by a watcr-courso ahout ten miles long (the Coulter Burn and Bannock- 
burn) ; but the water is not brackish for several miles below the point of 
junction. 
4. Rare and Uncommon Fishes. 
Carelophus ascanii. — A specimen of this fish was obtained by Mr Peter 
Jamieson, of the Board's Marine Laboratory, Dunbar. It was 5 J inches 
long, and was caught on a hook, two miles off the mouth of the Tyne, 
Haddingtonshire, on 13th September 1889. It has not been previously 
recorded as having taken a bait, but is occasionally captured in crab pots. 
Caranx trachurus. — One specimen of the horse mackerel, 13 inches 
long, was taken in the trawl at Station L, Firth of Forth on 31st August 
1889. 
Motella mustella. — Two specimens, one 4 inches and the other 3 J 
inches long, were taken in the trawl at Station IV., St Andrews Bay, on 
19th October 1889 ; another specimen, 4 J inches long, was caught in 
the trawl on 21st March 1890 in Largo Bay. 
Motella cimbria. — A specimen of the four-bearded rockling was captured 
in the trawl on 16th May 1889, at Station IX., Forth. Three specimens, 
6 J and 5 J inches long were caught in the trawl on 22nd February 1890, 
near the mouth of the Forth. 
Motella tricirrata. — Two specimens, 5| inches long were captured in 
the trawl on 10th May, at Station V., Forth ; one, 6 inches long, on 9th 
May at Station VIII. ; three from 6 to 9 inches long, in 53 fathoms in the 
Moray Firth on 11th July 1889. This fish is frequently captured in 
crab pots. One, 15f inches long, was taken on 2nd June in a crab pot 
off Dunbar; one, 16 inches long, was caught in a crab pot on 1st May, 
half a mile from Berwick. 
Lumpenus lampetriformis. — A large number of specimens of this fish 
were taken in the trawl ; one, 6 inches in length, near May Island on 
17th October 1889 ; eight, 12 and 10 inches long at Station II., Firth of 
Forth, on 14th May 1889; one, 10 J inches long at Station VIII., on 
16th May 1889; eight from 9J to 12J inches long at Station IX., on 
16th May 1889; eight from 4 to 7 inches long at the mouth of the Forth 
on 22nd February 1890; 61 specimens, in two hauls, from 3 to 10 
inches, in the same locality on March 19th 1890; 135 in one haul, from 
4 to 14 inches, also at the mouth of the Forth, on 28th April 1890; 21 
near the same locality, also on 28th April; 96 in one haul, from 6 to 11 
inches long at Station V., Forth, on 10th May 1890. No doubt a migra- 
tion of this fish to the mouth of the Forth has taken place. 
Zeugopterus punctatus. — A specimen 2 J inches long was captured in 
the trawl in Largo Bay on 21st March ; Mr Peter Jamieson obtained a 
male specimen, 7 inches long, caught in a crab pot off Dunbar on 6th 
May. 
Trachinus draco. — The Greater Weever was captured on 21st May 1889 
by Mr Thomas Scott, F.L.S., in Largo Bay, Firth of Forth; it was 9 inches 
in length. Mr Scott states that it is an addition to the faunistic list of 
the Forth. 
Myxine glutinosa. — Twenty-two specimens were captured in the trawl 
on 11th July in the Moray Firth, in 53 fathoms of water, 12 miles 
off Cullen. They were from 7 J to 12 inches long. 
Mr F. Nansen, has stated* that Myxine is usually a protandric 
hermaphrodite. Until it is about 12 £ inches long it is a male ; after that 
it produces ova, which are deposited throughout the year. 
* Jour. Hoy. Micr. Sot:, part ii. 1889, p. 188. 
