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VI.—THE FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF CLYDE. 
By Tuomas Scott, F.L.S., Mem. Soc. Zool. de France. 
It has been considered desirable that a list should be prepared of the 
fishes which have from time to time been observed within the limits of the 
Clydeestuary. The list is not a descriptive one, but is merely an enumera- 
tion of the various species which have come under the notice of the 
writer, together with those which have been recorded by different authors 
who have written on the fauna of the Clyde, or which have been seen by 
persons whose accuracy may be relied on. The following are the chief 
sources from which my information concerning Clyde fishes has been 
obtained :— 
(1.) A List of Loch Fyne Fishes, prepared for the most part by the late 
George Brook, Esq., F.L.S., and published in the Fourth Annual Report 
of the Fishery Board for Scotland (1886). (A Revised List of Loch Fyne 
Fishes is published in the Ba Fifteenth Annual Report, Part IIL, 
Eeoe).* 
(2.) A paper by Dr. Albert 0, L. G. Giinther, F.R.S., entitled, 
“Report on the Fishes obtained by Mr. (now Sir) ‘Ft Murray in deep 
water on the North-West Coast of Scotland, between April 1887 and 
February 1888,” published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 
Kdinburgh, Vol. XV. (1888). In this report 31 species are recorded, 
one of which was new to science, while two were additions to the British 
fauna. The species recorded in Dr. Giinther’s paper were mostly from 
the Clyde area, and there are some interesting notes on the bathymetrical 
distribution of the species. 
(3.) A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyle and the Inner Hebrides, by J. 
A. Harvey-Brown and Thomas E. Buckley, published in 1892. ‘The part 
of this work which is referred to in the present paper is the separate reprint 
of the list of fishes. In the list of fishes given in this work, the 
authors include Dr. Giinther’s records mentioned above, in the 
form of foot-notes under each of the species to which the records specially 
refer ; additional Clyde records are also given in this work. 
(4.) The statistics published in the Annual Reports of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland, in so far as they relate to the fishes of the Firth of 
Clyde, and especially to those fishes which have been captured by the 
Fishery steamer ‘‘ Garland.” 
I have also to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Duthie, the Fishery 
Officer at Girvan, and to Mr. Gray of the Marine Station, Millport, Cumbrae, 
for interesting information relating to Clyde fishes. Other sources of 
information are duly acknowledged in the sequel. : 
efore proceeding with the enumeration of species, it may be of interest 
to refer to some points concerning the distribution of one or two of the 
forms which are usually considered to be more or less rare in the Clyde 
area. Previous to the investigations carried on by Dr. (now Sir) 
John Murray, by means of the s.s. “Medusa,” the fish usually called 
the Sharp-tailed Lumpenus, Lumpenus lampetroeformis, was not known 
to oceur within the limits of the Clyde; but now, by the use of a 
small-mesh trawl-net, this fish is found to be comparatively frequent 
rl Mave, +. of this revised list had the privilege of consulting the records of Loch 
Pyne fauna obtained by the s.s. ‘‘ Medusa.” as the result of the investigations carried 
on by Sir John Murray on the West Coast, 
