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on Breydon. One was certainly caught at the 

 Fishwharf in August 1888. It was 22 inches 

 in length, and took a mussel. In the old days 

 cormorants frequented Breydon, finding the Mullet 

 a very interesting study; since their forsaking 

 the place, a circumstance hastened by the in- 

 creasing sewage run into the river, the visits of 

 cormorants have become fewer year by year. On 

 10th November 1890 a lad, fishing near Breydon, 

 accidentally hooked a small Grey Mullet, which, 

 on being forwarded to Dr. Giinther, at the British 

 Museum, was decided to be a variety known to 

 science as Mugil septentrionalis. It was 7 inches 

 long. 



BOAR-FISH 



It may seem odd that a fish of great rarity should 

 turn up in a certain locality where it has hitherto 

 been unrecorded or unknown, and almost immedi- 

 ately after another, or others, be met with; but 

 this may be accounted for by the possibility of a 

 shoal having strayed thither. In the case of the 

 appearance of the Boar-Fish (Capros aper\ two or 

 three were discovered, and then they disappeared 

 entirely. When passing by a shrimper's shop on 



