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depths, 'and is believed usually to reside there, 

 especially in rocky bays where the distance to the 

 bottom is very great.' The young are said to be 

 born alive, and to accompany their parents for 

 a considerable time. It attains to a length of 

 four feet. This capture is just in time to add to 

 the list which we have for the forthcoming part 

 of the Naturalists' Society's Transactions." 



I might add that above was the first recorded 

 for Norfolk. Strange to say, I met with this species 

 again under most curious circumstances, to be 

 narrated hereafter. 



UP FROM THE SEA 



Just as fresh-water fishes occasionally make for 

 the sea unintentionally, so sea fishes occasionally 

 find themselves in waters equally foreign to them. 

 Herring " Syle "immature Herrings come up the 

 river in summer by myriads ; many never return, 

 for they are stranded on the flats, snapped up by 

 Flounders, Gulls, and other enemies, and often 

 pulled ashore in the small nets. From a net on 

 2nd September 1894 I fished out a Herring about 



