of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 266 
March 16th, 1907. The stomachs of four herrings (3 ¢ and 1 9), part 
of a sample also from Stornoway, contained each a fair quantity of food. 
In one, which was tolerably well filled, the food consisted partly of 
Nyctiphanes and partly of Hyperiide (Parathemisto), but in the other 
three it consisted of Vyctiphanes only. 
(5) ANSTRUTHER, FirtH OF Forru. 
June 6th, 1905.—The stomachs of fifteen herrings from a sample sent 
from Anstruther were examined for food; with one exception, they were 
all male fishes. Only three of the stomachs contained food ; all the others 
were empty. The food observed consisted entirely of Parathemisto 
oblivia. One of the stomachs containing Parathemisto was that of a 
female fish. 
June 10th, 1905.—Twenty-fivestomachs from another sample of herrings 
sent from Anstruther were examined. Eleven were found to be empty, 
and of the others one contained the remains of crustacea— probably 
fragments of Parathemisto—but they could not be satisfactorily 
determined. The food observed in five of the others appeared to consist 
entirely of the species of Amphipod just referred to, while that contained 
in the other eight stomachs included both Parathemisto and Euphausiide. 
These Schizopods, though they could not be identified with absolute 
certainty, appeared to belong ito Thysanoessa sp. Four of the 
stomachs (two from female and two from male fishes) were distended 
with the large amount of food they contained, and which consisted of 
Amphipods and Schizopods in about equal proportions. 
(6) PETERHEAD, WICK, AND SHETLAND. 
November, 1906.—The ‘stomachs of a few herrings representing 
samples sent from Peterhead, Wick, and Shetland, were examined in 
November. ‘Two, which were those of fishes belonging to a sample from 
Peterhead, contained each a tolerable amount of food. In the one case it 
consisted for the most part of the Decapod larve and in the other of 
Calanus helgolandicus. 
Three stomachs of herrings from a sample sent from Wick were also 
found to be well supplied with food. In two of them the food appeared 
to consist entirely of Metridia lucens, and in the other of young fishes 
which were too much decomposed to be satisfactorily identified. 
The remaining three stomachs were those of herrings from a sample 
sent from Shetland. Like the others, they each contained a considerable 
amount of food, but in this case it consisted entirely of Euphausiide, 
but it was not in a condition to permit of an exact determination. 
From a careful examination of the fragments, however, I think it highly 
probable that they belong to the geaus Thysanoessa. 
I now append in tabular form the names of the various organisms 
referred to in the preceding notes. 
[TaBLE. 
