of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 280 
Chirolophis galerita, Linné, Yarrell’s Blenny. 
One specimen was taken amongst boulders at low water in Kast Loch 
Tarbert in 1885 (B. & 8.). Ballantrae Bank, one specimen in January 
1899 (G.). 
Pholis gunnellus, Linné. The Gunnel or Butter-fish, 
The butter-fish is common and generally distributed, and especially 
inshore amongst weed and stones, where it may frequently be found when 
the tide recedes, 
Euchelyopus (Zoarces) viviparus, Linué. The Viviparous Blenny. 
A specimen of this species, captured in the vicinity of Row, near 
Helensburgh, is in the collection of the late Dr. Robertson of Mullport at 
the Marine Station there. I am indebted to Mr, Gray, the Curator, for 
this record, 
In the Vertebrate Fauna of Argyle and the Inner Hebrides, the 
viviparous blenny is recorded from Loch Creran, the Sound of Jura, and 
from Glenshiel, ‘‘but it seems -to be rare on the West Coast.” There 
is no Clyde record for the species in this work. 
Lumpenus lampetreformis (Walbaum). The Sharp-tailed Lumpenus. 
“Three adult specimens were found between Cumbrae and Skelmorlie 
Lighthouse in 20 fathoms in April 1887, and at Cumbrae Lighthonse in 
60 fathoms in February 1888” (Giinther). Occasionally captured off 
shore in the shrimp trawl-net of the Fishery steamer “Garland.” As 
many as a dozen specimens of this rare species have been taken at one 
time by the Fishery steamer in the lower part of the Clyde estuary, whilst 
in 1896 four specimens were captured near the head of Upper Loch Fyne. 
It requires a net with moderately close meshes to capture this species— 
an ordinary trawl-net is usually ineffective. 
In a work on British Natural History published in 1898, the author, 
F. G. Afialo, has the following note within square brackets at p. 371 :— 
‘The sharp-tailed lumpeuus was once trawled (1884) off the Carr Light- 
ship,” and he adds that he gives this record “on the authority of M‘Intosh 
and Masterman”; evidently he was unaware of Dr, Giinther’s records for 
the Clyde, and the Fishery Board’s for the Firth of Forth, 
Fam. Crrouip#, Bleeker, 
Cepola rubescens, Linné. The Red Band Fish. 
One 154 inches long was taken on a whiting line 7 miles south of 
Ayr (Harvey). Another 194 inches long was found on the beach at 
Ballantrae after a storm (Thompson). “Two have been taken on the 
Ayrshire coast just inside the Clyde area” (H.B., p. 195). Perhaps 
this last record refers to the same specimens mentioned by Harvey and 
Thompson. 
Fam. ATHERINIDS, Giinther. 
Atherina presbyter, Cuvier, The Sand Smelt or Atherine. 
Frequent amongst zostera in Kast Loch Tarbert in the spring of 1885, 
but not met with later (B. & S.). Mr. Gray, of the Millport Marine 
Station, states :—‘ On two occasions I saw shoals of these little fishes in 
Campbeltown Loch—once at the Kilbrennan shore, where they were 
pursued by a number of guillemots, which chased them so keenly that 
