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The Sand Launce. Ammodytes Lancea. Yarr: n. 429. 



Abundant; it is dug out of the wet sand at low spring 

 tides. Superior even to Whitebait for the table. Local 

 name, "The Higgle." 



There are two British species of AmmodyUSj and though 

 A. Tobianus is rare, I think it still may perhaps be found 

 in Purbeck. To assist in endeavouring to ascertain 

 this fact, it may bo well to give here the differences 

 between the two species. A. Tobianus is larger, 

 measuring 12 to 15 inches in length; the head, and 

 particularly the lower jaw is longer than that of A, 

 Lancea: ihe dorsal fin commences on a line with the 

 end of the rays of the pectoral fins ; that of A. Lancea 

 commencing in a Une with the middle of the pectoral 

 fins : A Tobianus is also browner and less transparent 

 than A. Lancea. 



111. Fishes having a bony skeleton and gills arranged in tufts. 

 C Ossei Lophobranchii. J 



The Great Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus Acus. Yarr: IF. 432. 

 Studland bay. 



The Deep-nosed Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus TyphU. Yarr: 

 n. 439. 



Swanage and Studland bays, the most common species 

 in the former bay. 



The (Equoreal Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus oequoreus. Yarr: 

 n. 442. 



I obtained one specimen of this somewhat rare fish in 

 Swanage bay, last October. 



The Snake Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus angmneus. Yarr: IT. 

 445. 



Studland and Swanage bays. 



>traight-nos 



Yarr: H. 



Studland bay. 



Vorm Pipe-I 

 n. 450. 



In the grass banks in Studland bay. 



The Straight-nosed Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus ophidion. 

 Yarr: H. 447. 



The Worm Pipe-Fish. Syngnathus lumbridfomus. Yarr: 

 n. 450. 



