ii6 THE MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX. 



(1869, p. 1520) a record is given of several which were caught 

 in the Thames as high as Woolwich. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch says (Essex Nat., vol. i., p. 218) one 

 weighing 35 Ibs. was captured on October 26th, 1887, at 

 Beeleigh, and the capture of two off Clacton is recorded 

 (Essex Nat., vol. ii., p. 6). About the middle of February, 

 1894, a police-constable named Harrington shot one, which 

 weighed nearly 30 Ibs., from the sea-wall of Foulness Island 

 (Essex County Chronicle^ February 23rd, 1894). 



Order IV. LOPHOBRANCHII, Cuvier. 



Family SYNGNATHID^, Linn. 



Genus SYPHONOSTOMA, Kaup. 



Syphonostoma typhle, Kaup. BROAD-NOSED PIPE-FISH. 



This is very common on our Zostera-covered shores. It 

 is taken very frequently by the shrimp- and eel-trawlers. 



Genus SYNGNATHUS, ArtedL 



Syngnathus acus, Linn. GREATER PIPE-FISH. 



This, the commonest of the family, is found on all parts of 

 our coast, but more frequently on the beds of the sea-wrack 

 (Zostera marina], to the tufts of which it clings. It is, 

 therefore, constantly captured in the eel-trawls, and forms one 

 out of the mass of living creatures brought by these nets to 

 the surface. 



Genus NEROPHIA, Rophinesque. 



Nerophis sequoreus, Kaup. OCEAN, OR SNAKE, PIPE-FISH. 



Although not so common a fish as the preceding, this is 

 found in some quantity in the eel-trawls. Day (Fishes of 



