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The range in size as obtained from the calculations was as 

 follows : — 



Range at end of Year's Growth. 



The average size and the range in size, as calculated from the 

 scales, at the end of each year's growth vary according to age, 

 and remind one of the results obtained from the scales of the 

 herring. 



The present year's growth had commenced in nearly all fish 

 of two years of age, and in one or two of those a year older., but it 

 had not done so in any of the older fish. 



The sample consisted of 91 fish, and of these four oni}^ were 

 males. The condition of the gonads was as follows : — 



BALLAN WRASSE, Lahrus hergylta. 



A young ballan wrasse from two to three centimetres in length, 

 was caught in a rock pool at Cullercoats, and placed in one of the 



