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Nerophis equoreus (Linné). The Straight-Nosed Pipe-fish. 
East Loch Tarbert, amongst zostera (B. & 8.). A fine specimen is 
in the Robertson collection in the Marine Station at Millport, which was 
captured at Cumbrae. 
Nerophis lumoriciformis (Linné). The Worm Pipe-fish. 
Taken in Hast Loch Tarbert amongst zostera (B. & S.). I have 
taken this little fish amongst weed between tide marks in Lunderston 
Bay, near Inverkip, and it has also been taken by the “Garland” in 
Campbeltown Loch, Cantyre. 
Hippocampus antiquorum, Leach. 'The Sea-horse. 
Mr. Gray, of the Marine Station at Millport, writes to me concerning 
this species as follows :—“ I picked up a specimen of Hippocampus on 
the Kinloch Park, Campbeltown, in the autumn of 1894, from a spot 
where herring seine-nets had been spread out to dry, and from the fresh 
condition of the fish I had no doubt whatever that it had been caught in 
the nets in the Sound of Kilbrennan, and been shaken out on the spot 
where I found it. Still I did not see it alive, so there is room for the 
element of doubt to creep in; though this evidence, therefore, may not 
be quite conclusive, I have very little doubt in my own mind of the little 
fish having been caught in the Kilbrennan Sound. Moreover, I may 
mention, by way of confirming what has just been said, that during the 
past summer a gentleman visitor to the Marine Station told me that many 
years ago his own children caught two live Hippocampus in a pool on the 
Fairlie sands, and kept them alive for about a week in a vessel of sea- 
water. I took the gentleman to Mrs. Robertson of Fernbank, who 
happened at the time to be in the museum connected with the station, and 
to her he repeated the story also. Since then I feel more firmly convinced 
that the Campbeltown specimen was a genuinely local one.” 
Hippocampus has been recorded from Belfast Lough, which is not very 
far distant from the mouth of the Clyde; and the same species is also 
recorded for the West Coast of Scotland in Harvey-Brown and Buckley’s 
work on the Vertebrate Fauna of Argyle and the Inner Hebrides. 
Order PLECTOGNATHI. 
Fam. GyMNODONTES. 
Orthagoriscus mola, Linné. The Short Sun-fish. 
A specimen of the short sun-fish was captured off the Esplanade at 
Greenock on September 10th, 1881 (J. M. Campbell).* This specimen 
was said to weigh about a ton; it measured 7 feet 9 inches in length and 
3 feet 9 inches in height. Mr. Campbell states that “the liver was 
absolutely crammed with a scolecid worm, Tetrarhynchus reptans.” 
SUB-CLASS CHONDROPTERYGII. 
Order GANOIDEL. 
Fam. ACIPENSERIDA. 
Acipenser sturio, Linné. The Sturgeon. 
Fine specimens are often noticed in Loch Fyne during the herring 
fishery, but are seldom captured (B. & 8.). Mr. Alexander Gray, of the 
* Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc., Glasgow, Vol. V., pt. Il., p. 177 (1883). 
