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^.Jbe allowed accordiDff to size. Fish done in this wavare 

 perfection." 



I|^tlie angler goes out frequently fishing, he should 

 get^l^vi^charcoal stove, which has a grating on top like a 

 gridifbn ; this can be kept in the punt, and the fish can 

 be easjly cooked on the bars of this portable stove. 



Perch, I tbink, have more intelligence than most 

 other fish. The best way to test a fish's intelligence, like 

 that of other animals, is by appealing to their appetite. 

 At the aquarium at the Zoological Gardens, Tennant, 

 the keeper, was accustomed to frequently feed the perch 

 with live minnows. After a while the perch, ascertained 

 by a process very like reasoning that the minnows were 

 kept in another portion of the fish-house. Whenever 

 they saw Tennant go near the place n-liere the minnows 

 were kept, they began to rush about as if in anticipation 

 of the welcome feed which, somehow or other, they had 

 ascertained was forthcoming for their benefit. 



I now give the list of tlie largest perch that have come 

 under my notice during the last few years. 



Dr. Norman sent me two fine perch in April, 1868, 

 caught in tbe Norfolk Broad ; they weighed respectively 

 31bs. 2oz., and 2rbs. lloz. "Wishinfr to know the 

 number of eggs they contained, theyw^ere counted by 

 myself and secretary. We found that they amounted in 

 the larger one to 155,620, in the smaller, 127,240. 



Dr. Norman also informed me that a fine perch, 

 weighing 4^1bs., was taken on a trinner in the Wroxham 

 Broad, Norfolk; and that another was ta^ken in the 

 Bure in March, 1868, which weighed also 4^1bs. 



