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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887
List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay noting that the sand-eel is 'as large ling - 9 in[ches] in gob of this one - blue - not eaten - not in sand'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903
List of names of fish and shellfish probably collected on the Barraigh/Isle of Barra including 'Deanadh maorach - App[lies] to the limpet only - Musgan or Coilleag-Struban = Cailleach (Kintire)' [Cinn Tìre/Kintyre]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel, 1894
Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel which reads 'Bones of head hard scales sharp and prickly. Scales come off whole when boiled. When plentiful no herrings are got on the west coast'. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about dogfish and fishing lines, June 1887
Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about the breeding habits of 'gobag' [sand eel], 'murlach' [dogfish] and 'sgat' [skate] that they breed 'like the dogs'; that they cut through fishing lines 'like [a] razor' and that eels breed from a horse's hair and that a dog's hair is as good as horse hair. The vocabulary note reads 'Casach = snod iasgaich' [fishing-line].
Note about eating fish and vocabulary notes, June 1887
Note about eating fish probably collected on Ìle/Islay stating that 'The ugsa and Pioc[aich] are the cleanest eats in the sea. Fry of herring eat[en] ciuban used as bait'. The vocabulary notes show 'Bacach = Turbot' and 'Bradan-Leathan = Halibut'.
Note about grilse, August 1883
Note about grilse that they hatch in the spring and are full size by the autumn. Also notes that 'banag' is a sea-trout.
Note about lumpfish which reads 'Griasaich young of Mac-lamhaich - Sea Devil', 1894
Note about lumpfish which reads 'Griasaich young of Mac-lamhaich - Sea Devil'.
Note about the 'Cathrathain', June 1887
Note about the 'Cathrathain', probably collected on Ìle/Islay, that it is like a small eel and sucks blood out of others.