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FISHES. 
Family CYTTIDiE. 
57- Zeus faber, L. Doree, 
Mr. Crawford mentions this fish as occurring about Tongue, 
and there is a specimen in the Dunrobin Museum, taken at 
Brora, March 6, 1883. 
Mr. Eeid also sends us the following : — " I picked up on 
the pier a small John Dory. It had been thrown out of a 
fishing-boat, as I supposed, as useless. I had never seen the 
species before, and had never heard of its having been got 
in this district. There was no mistaking the fish, although 
I thought it might have been a boar fish when I picked it 
up, but, on comparing it with Couch, there was no mistake 
but that it was a genuine Dory." 
Edward also mentions it as taken, not uncommonly, in 
salmon-nets on the south side of the Firth. 
Family STROMATEIDiE. 
58. Centrolophus britannicus, Gunth. 
59. Centrolophus pompilus (Z.). Black Fish. 
"In 1841, one 14 inches in length was taken at Lossiemouth" 
(Day's Brit. Fishes, vol. i. p. 113). 
Family CORYPH^NID^. 
60. Brama rail, Bl. Ray's Sea Bream. 
Edward mentions it as rare on the Banffshire coast. 
61. Lampris luna {Gm.). Opah. 
Eecorded by Edward as taken on several occasions on the 
south side of the Firth. 
