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at least one or two. Occasionally, by the impetus 

 of its rush, the fish fairly strands itself, but 

 hurriedly and noisily flaps itself in an undulating 

 manner backwards. On 8th October 1894, noticing 

 a group of persons standing at the quayside, I joined 

 them, to see that a large Flounder, heedless of their 

 onlooking, was working up and down the piles, 

 snapping at small Shrimps, which darted hurriedly 

 out of its way. Some of the Shrimps jumped quite 

 out of the water, the Flounder coming to the surface 

 in chase of them. This went on for several minutes, 

 until a wherryman, keener on the practical than the 

 sentimental side of nature study, hurried up with a 

 mop and attempted to capture the fish. It is need- 

 less to say it drew a line at treatment of this kind. 



It was undoubtedly a very hungry Sturgeon that 

 seized a fisherman's bait of sliced Herring in 

 December 1894, and was successfully hooked and 

 landed, the hook having afterwards to be cut out of 

 its mouth. It measured 6| feet. This is the first 

 Sturgeon I have known to be thus legitimately 

 caught in this neighbourhood. 



It is not usual for the Dory to be taken in the 

 herring-nets. One, however, was found entangled 

 in the nets of a Scotch boat off this coast. It 



