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Part III. — Ninth Anmial Report 
12th May 1891. Ova of cod, bib, ling, rockling, sprat, gurnard, dab, and 
flounder. 
Two TO SIX Miles south-east of Island of May. — 10 Fathom Tow- 
net, 12th May 1891. Young flounders, 9 to 12 mm. ; young sand-eels, 
8 to 21 mm. ; young gadoids, 8 to 9 mm. Cottus, 7*5 mm. ; rockling, 
7 mm. ; and young pleuronectids, 5 mm. 
III. St Andrews Bay, 
Station V. — 14th May 1891. Ova of whiting, rockling (large size 
M. tricirrata ?), gurnard, sprat, brill, dab, and flounder. 
lY. Moray Frith. 
Smith Bank. — Trawl-net (second haul), 25th June 1890. Young green 
cod, 43 to 55 mm ; 1 bimaculated sucker, 35 mm. 
Young Gadoid, mvi-icater net, 28th June 1889. Shorter and thicker 
fish than cod, with proportionally larger eye and smaller mouth. The 
ventral fins are larger than those in the cod and whiting of same length — 
they indeed touch the vent. It is about 16 mm. in length. It has scattered 
black pigment along the dorsum from the snout backward, that over the 
brain being esj)ecially well marked. The arrangement of the pigment 
along the dorsal and ventral edges resembles that in the whiting, though 
dorsally there is a more distinct tendency to a double line, as seen later- 
ally. The eyes are large, with a notch or black line superiorly. This 
form comes near the poor cod and bib. Young gadoids, from 7 to 20 
mm., chiefly wliiting; 1 young Cottus, 11*8 ; 1 young gurnard, 10*5 mm. ; 
2 younij turbot, 10 mm. (eye on rid^e). 
Smith Bank. — Mid-water net, 28th June 1889. Young gadoids, 7 to 
20 mm., chiefly whiting; young Coftns qawiricornis, 11*8 mm.; young 
gurnard, 10*5 mm. ; young turbot, 9*5 mm. (eyes lateral); young pleuro- 
nectids, 10 mm. 
Smith Bank. — Surface, 25th July 1890. Eggs of witch (?) whiting, 
turbot (?), gadoid (?), sprat, unknown species, '042 in. \ ihid., with scabrous 
zona ; dragonet. 
Station V. — Bottom, 12th September 1890. Young clupeoids, 5 to 9 
mm.; young lemon-dabs, 7 to 11 mm.; early post-larval stage of the 
same, with four black pigment-specks behind the deep abdomen ; man- 
dible large and upturned; eye silvery; young long rough dabs, 5 to 10 
mm. ; young dragonet, 6 mm. ; young sucker (Lepadogader), 5 to 9 
mm. ; young gobies, 4*5 to 5 mm. 
Station VI. — Bottom, 13th September 1890. Numerous young 
suckers (Lepadogaster), 5 to 11 mm.; post-larval clupeoids, 8 '2 mm.; 
post-larval pleuronectids (lemon sole), 8'2, 9*5, and 10*2 mm., the latter 
with the eye on the ridge; young goby, 14*5 mm.; and minute post- 
larval form, 2'2 mm, (rockling, injured). The most interesting feature is 
the abundance of the young of Lepadogaster, which are seldom met with 
near St Andrews. 
V. Off Caithness. 
Off Sarclet, Caithness, in the ' Southesk.' Bottom, 12th, 13th, and 
14th January 1891. Eel, 65 mm.; numerous gunnels, 12 to 45 mm.; 
herring, 27 mm.; unknown post-larval form (injured), 8 mm. 
