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being " Sollemgeese," which is practically the same word used 

 for the Gannet by Sir William Brereton in 1635 ; J accordingly, 

 it is not unlikely that real Gannets are intended, and the date, 

 23rd August, would be about the time for taking them at 

 the Bass Rock, distant from Naworth, as the crow flies, about 

 sixty miles, and not a great deal longer by road. At the 

 Bass the young Gannets were harvested every year, and 

 looked upon as a delicacy. To so great an extent was this 

 carried on, that Brereton tells us in his time the fowl taken 

 on the Bass were worth ^200 a year. 



KESWICK HALL, NORWICH. 



ON SOME AMBICOLOURED FLAT-FISH FROM 



THE CLYDE. 



By RICHARD ELMHIRST, F.L.S. 



Superintendent of the Marine Biological Station, Millport. 



IN October 1908 Mr. J. N. Goudie, of Strone, sent to the 

 Millport Marine Station an ambicoloured Dab which he had 

 caught on a hand-line, in about 4 fathoms, in the Holy Loch. 

 I heartily thank him for sending this interesting specimen to 

 this station. I have found the blind side partly coloured in 

 a few other fishes. 



PLAICE (Plcuronectes platessa, L.). One specimen, 143 mm. long, 

 from Fairlie Sands had the posterior half pigmented and spotted, 

 followed by three round patches of pigment in a transverse row, 

 and one patch still further forward. The orange marks on the 

 left side were exactly opposite the normal marks on the right, 

 as in the case of symmetrical colour variation mentioned by 

 Bateson in "Materials for the Study of Variation," p. 467, 

 except for a little extra coloration about the lateral line on the 

 left side. The anterior termination of the dorsal fin is normal, 

 not ending behind the eyes, as in a specimen mentioned by 

 Cunningham and M'Munn in "Trans. Roy. Soc." vol. 184, 

 p. 802. 



1 "Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland," MDCXXXiv-MDCxxxv. By Sir William Brereton, Bart. Edited by 

 Edward Hawkins (1844). 



