. The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland. Fishes; Fishes. 120 ACANTHOPTERYGII. proonrcJ at different times in tlie Orkneys and Zetland, and one nearly 6 feet in length was captnred in Sunday. Mortimer, in 1750, exhibited at the Royal Society one taken at Leith. It is scarcely necessary to emimerate all the various captures, a long list of which may be seen in the Thirty-ninth Annnal Report of the Royal Com^^nll Polytechnic Sociity for ISliP, p. 76. Pennant records two from Scotland, and in 170'.', one 3 feet (i inches long, and weighing 70 or 80 lb., was taken in Korthumberland, and dcsci-ili
. The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland. Fishes; Fishes. 120 ACANTHOPTERYGII. proonrcJ at different times in tlie Orkneys and Zetland, and one nearly 6 feet in length was captnred in Sunday. Mortimer, in 1750, exhibited at the Royal Society one taken at Leith. It is scarcely necessary to emimerate all the various captures, a long list of which may be seen in the Thirty-ninth Annnal Report of the Royal Com^^nll Polytechnic Sociity for ISliP, p. 76. Pennant records two from Scotland, and in 170'.', one 3 feet (i inches long, and weighing 70 or 80 lb., was taken in Korthumberland, and dcsci-ilied by Harrison in the British Zoology. One in Filey Bay, Torkshire, 3 feet 6 inches long, and in 1 772 one, 4 feet 6 inches long and weighing 1 l.(J lb., at Brixham. Paget recorded one in December, 1823, and another in November, 1828, captnred at Yarmouth : and Sconler one from the Clyde in 183:>. In 183^., during the early part of the summer, one was taken in the west of Coi'nwall, and in August the same year another near Conway (Couch) : and in July, 1839, one at Hunstanton, on the east coast of Norfolk, which was placed in the Wisbeach Museum. March 3rd, 1839, one was taken at Port Gordon, near Elgin, 3 feet 10 inches long, weighing 112 lb. (Gordon, Zool. , p. 3469), and several years subsequently another from near Nairn. In 1844, on July 4th, Mr. Gurney (Zool. p. 679) recorded one at Norwich which had been left by the tide on the beach at Eccles, it was a male weighing 4 or 5 stone. Norman mentions one taken in February, 1849, at Flamborough Head : and in 1850, another weighing 72 lb. at Redcar (Rudd, Zool. ix, lS51, p. 3010). Several others have been recorded from Scotland and the west of England, and Edward states it to have been taken in Banfl'Khire on several occasions. A local example is in the St. Andrew's Museum (Mcintosh). In June, 1866, a large specimen was taken in St. Austell's Bay, Cornwall. In Ireland we find one recorded in Sampson's Derry (p. 337), wh
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