PISCES. 
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Breams). 
Black Bream. fCantharus Grisem). Old wife. Stone Basse. 
Common in some localities (off Einsey and Trewavas Heads 
in Mount’s Bay for instance), but usually rare. An excellent 
fish for the table. 
Bogus. ( Boops vulgaris). Box. Ox-eye. Eare. 
Becker. [Pagrus vulgaris). Braise. Not common, and when 
occurring frequently confounded with common bream. An 
excellent table fish. 
Couch’s Sea Bream. {Pagellus Rondeletii). Only a smgle speci- 
men is recorded. . . , t-.- i 
Spanish Bream. fP. Erythrinus). Couch in “British Fishes, 
distinguishes this from Erythrinus (so called by him as its 
English name), but I am confident that the difference,- 
between the two fish are only those caused by size and 
accidental circumstances. 
Bream. fP. eentrodontus J . When half-grown, “ Plosher.” 
When young, “ Chad.” Common everywhere. 
Short Sea-Bream. (P. CurtusJ. Distinguished by Couch in his 
British Fishes but only one specimen is recorded. 
Oilthead. [Chrysophrys Awrata). Eare. Last recorded occur- 
rence off Land’s End, 1st March, 1870. 
Couch here follows with : — 
Bays Bream {Brama Raii), which is not a Bream at all, but one 
of the scalerayed {sgtiammipennes) family. Natives usually 
of the tropics. This fish has occurred several times, but 
always, thus far, in an exhausted state, wave-beaten on a 
beach. 
On 9th October, 1874, a specimen of another scalerayed fish 
occun-ed aUve in Mount’s Bay. It was identified as one of the 
Bamily Pimelepterus (Cuvier), and named P . Cornuhensis. It also 
is tropical, and has no English name. It is described in Aoologist, 
2nd series. No. Ill, p. 4255, December, 1874. 
SCOMBERIDjE.—iT-a^ Mackaeel Tribe). 
Mackarel. f Seamier scombrusj. Common. Having taken the 
opportunity of a voyage from the bcilly Islands in the busy 
part of the mackarel season of 1874, to inspect over 15000, 
There were over 60,000 mackerel on board, but 45,000 were packed in “pads” before 
started. 
