267 Part [11 —Twenty-fifth Annual Report 
Taste III. 
List of organisms observed in the preceding notes with the localities 
where the herrings were sent from. 
Names of the Organisms. — Clyde ee Wick.| Shet- 
Fyne. */Broom |noway.| uther.| head. land. 
Post-larval fishes —Clupeoids(?)| + leg g| x? Re +? i 
i, Me Sand-eels - +? — [628] ++ RY fare ah: 
Fish eggs . - + ABS... re oe 
Fish scales : hy cd oa - 208 me i de ee 
Nyctiphanes norvegica - fy) BS eh gS a a) + | % ‘i oi 
? Thysanoessa, sp. - a tae set fale ded lgieke + ve we | t+ 
Euphausiide - - - -/ +4 ]+4 |8 8] +4] 44] .. me aa: 
Hyperia galba? : : = ae + |e a9 oe oe HY 8 * 
Parathemisto oblivia Sit Pd: SST Heb PY a ROE At 
Evadne Nordmanni a tighn eo aoe af i ms 
Calanus helgolandicus Hee (EE She eS WEE +. ges 
Pseudocalanus elongatus we [EF g ar) ae : ae 
Centropages hamatus = + jogs] ... a. 
Temora longicornis pl ee sities 0 tw Pa oi 
Metridia lucens - - - + cf Alea Sal AS ++ 
Oithona similis -| + Sh eee td | 
Caligus rapax - ‘oB| + op | 
Decapod larve - - . + .s a s| ++ om ++ 
Annelida—Chetopoda - -]| ... + |S 3 Mf te 
Fa Sagitta - . ti ith oe +4015 
Nore—The sign + indicates that the organism was generally not very plentiful in any 
stomach examined. ++ indicates that the organism occurred in at least some of 
the stomachs in considerable quantity. 
It will be observed from this Table and from that in Brook and 
Calderwood’s paper in the Fourth Annual Report of the Fishery Board 
for Scotland, that the food of herring captured off the coasts of Scotland 
consists mainly of four or perhaps five groups or organisms, viz., (1st) 
Post-larval fishes, (2nd) Amphipoda, (8rd) Copepoda, (4th) Schizopoda, 
and (5) Decapod larve, and a few remarks on each of these groups may 
not be out of place here. 
lst—Post-larval fishes. The post-larval fishes most frequently 
mentioned by Brook and Calderwood are Clupeoids—chiefly young 
herrings and sprats. Sand-eels are only recorded eleven times, from 
places all on the East Coast, and were from herring taken at various . 
times during the year, from Jannary to August. They occurred usually 
in quantity. In the stomachs examined for this paper, sand-eels in 
quantity were only observed in herrings from Stornoway, and a few 
doubtful examples were noticed in Loch Fyne herrings. Clupeoids were 
seldom observed in the fishes examined for this paper. 
2nd—Amphipoda. The only species of Amphipoda that appear to be 
of much importance as herring food belong to the Hyperiide, and those 
that have been most frequently recorded are Hyperia galba and 
Parathemisto oblivia. ‘The first is the form commonly mentioned by 
Brook and Calderwood, but it has been rarely met with in the stomachs 
examined for this paper. Hyperiide have been met with in the 
stomachs of herrings chiefly from the East Coast and during the first 
three and the last months of the year, but they have also been ocva- 
sionally observed in June and July. Theauthors referred to above do 
not appear to have obtained them in the stomachs of any herrings from 
the West Coast. They occurred, however, in March in three stomachs of 
