208 AN EAST COAST NATURALIST 



examples only blotched on the under side the spines 

 corresponding with those on the upper surface are 

 entirely wanting on the white patches. In the case 

 of a fish possessing a white patch above an ex- 

 ceedingly rare circumstance the spines there too 

 are wanting. 



Two fine examples brought in in November 

 1896 weighed respectively, when gutted, 11 Ibs. 

 and 12 Ibs. 



PREGNANT BLENNY 



Attached to a string of Herrings 1 heads on a 

 rubbish box I found, on November 1889, a full- 

 grown female Viviparous Blenny (Zoarces viviparus). 

 Noticing its undue plumpness, I took it in my hand, 

 when some young ones, fully developed, and quite 

 ready for extrusion, slid down the body of the fish 

 as I held it vertically. I afterwards counted 133 

 little ones, each measuring 1J inch. In a straight 

 line they covered just 5J yards. 



WASHED our TO SEA 



After heavy rains, when the marsh ditches contain 

 more water than is considered safe or requisite by 



