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especially during the herring fishing. Few of those taken by the 
“Garland” are of large size; they seldom reach beyond 2 feet in length; 
whereas the picked dog-fish is stated by Day to attain a length of at least 
4 feet off our shores; but such large specimens are probably of exceptional 
occurrence. 
Fam. RHINIDA. 
Rhina squatina (Linné). The Angel-fish or Monk-fish. 
“In the Firth of Clyde it is by no meaus uncommon, and is 
frequently found there after gales; one was harpooned while asleep, but 
broke away.”* This appears to be the only Clyde record for the angel- 
fish hitherto published. In the Vertebrate Fauna of Argyle and the 
Inner Hebrides it is stated that two specimens of the angel-fish in the 
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, are from the West Coast, but no locality 
is given for them. 
Mr. Wright, the chief Fishery Officer for the Barrow-in-Furness district 
of the Lancashire Sea Fisheries, states that he trawled in the Clyde for 
about eighteen winters previous to the closing of the estuary to that mode 
of fishing, and that during that time he occasionally captured angel-fish 
on the Ballantrae Bank. He knows the fish very well, and has brought 
specimens from Morecambe Bay to the Sea Fish Hatchery at Piel. The 
-name he uses for the angel-fish is the ‘‘ abbot.” 
Fam. Ratip. 
Raia batis, Linné. The Skate, the Grey Skate or Blue Skate. 
Moderately common and generally distributed, especially off-shore. 
Those captured by the “Garland” are seldom of large size, being usually 
mere pigmies when compared with the immense specimens sometimes 
landed at the fish market at Aberdeen. The largest taken by the 
“‘Garland ” in the Clyde rarely exceed three feet in width. 
Raia intermedia, Parnell. The Flapper Skate. 
“ A female with a disk 19 inches wide was obtained between Sanda 
Island and Ailsa Craig in 24 fathoms, March 6th, 1888” (Giinther). The 
flapper skate has been taken by the “Garland” in the deep water to the 
east of Arran, and also in the vicinity of Ailsa Craig. (This is the Raia 
macrorhynchus of Day’s British Fishes.) 
Raia oxyrhynchus, Linné. Long or Sharp-nosed Skate. 
Two specimens were captured by the ‘‘ Garland” in the deep water to 
the east of Arran; both were comparatively small, one being only 21 
inches and the other 29 inches across the pectoral fins. 
Mr. Duthie, Fishery Officer, Girvan, informs me that on February Ist 
(1900) he saw a fine specimen of the long-nosed skate which had just 
been sent to Girvan from Maidens Village—a village not far from Girvan. 
The following measurements were taken by Mr. Duthie—Extreme length, 
51 inches; extreme breadth, 34 inches; length from tip of snout to 
centre of closed mouth, 13 inches; length of tail, 18 inches; while from 
the tip of the tail to the vent was 21 inches. 
Raia fullonica, Linné. Shagreen Ray, Fuller’s Ray 
‘“‘ A female example, 24 inches across the disk, from Loch Fyne, off 
Skate Island, was obtained in 100 fathoms. An adult male, 19 inches 
across the disk, was caught in Kilbrennan Sound in 20 fathoms” 
*A. Norman, Zoologist, Vol. XV. (1857), p. 5366, 
