SLENDER GOBY. 



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" Apparently a new species, though probably of not less 

 frequent occurrence than the Spotted Goby, with which it 

 may be easily confounded. 



" My specimens were obtained from Colchester, and were 

 supposed to have been taken somewhere off the Essex coast." 

 Jenyns 1 MS. 



Dr. Parncll says, " This well-marked Goby is occasionally 

 found in the Firth of Forth, but is not common ; it inhabits 

 the same situations as the minutus, and they are frequently 

 taken together. I have found it in the Sol way Firth, and in 

 much greater plenty on the southern coast of England. It 

 spawns in June, and is of little value except as food for other 

 fishes and aquatic birds." 



I have also obtained this species from our southern coast ; 

 and Mr. Thompson of Belfast has procured two examples 

 from the coasts of Down and Louth in Ireland. 



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