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shire and Sussex shores; but on the north-east coast it 

 is again considered rare. Mr. Paget says that several were 

 caught during the summer of 1834 by the Yarmouth fisher- 

 men when taking Turbot on the Knowl. Dr. George Johnston 

 has obtained this fish on the coast of Berwick, and Dr. Par- 

 nell says that one or two are taken every year at the mouth 

 of the Forth, or on the sandy banks in Guillon Bay ; but it 

 is not mentioned by Low in his Fauna Orcadensis. Al- 

 though the Dory is not included in the Fauna Suecica either 

 of Linnaeus or Retzius, nor in the Zoologia Danica of Miil- 

 ler ; and it is considered that this fish does not go into the 

 Baltic, or at least has not been caught there, yet Mr. Henry 

 Kroyer gives it a place in the recently published portion of 

 his work on the Fishes of Denmark, Avhich he had the kind- 

 ness to send to me in October 1838. The food of the 

 Dory is the fry of other fishes, molluscous animals, and 

 shrimps. The largest specimens that come to the London 

 fish-market weigh from ten to twelve pounds ; but the average 

 weight is scarcely half as much. Pennant says the largest are 

 from the Bay of Biscay. 



Mr. Couch considers the Dory as " rather a \vanderinff 



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than a migratory fish ; and its motions are chiefly regulated 

 by those of the smaller kinds on which it preys. When 

 the Pilchards approach the shore, the Dory is often taken in 

 considerable numbers. In the autumn of 1829, more than 

 sixty Avere hauled on shore at once in a net, some of them 

 of large size, and yet the whole were sold together for nine 

 shillings. It continues common until the end of winter; 

 after which it is more rare, but never scarce. The form 

 of the Dory would seem to render it incapable of much 

 activity ; and it is sometimes seen floating along with the 

 current, rather than swimming ; yet some circumstances fa- 

 vour the idea that it is able to make its way with considerable 

 activity. It keeps pace with schulls of Pilchards, so that 



