FISHES 



As with the other divisions of the Norfolk fauna, the number of 

 species of fishes which has been found in the rivers, lakes, and along the 

 coast of Norfolk, is unusually large ; the warm shallow water in the bays 

 and flats of the coast forming excellent breeding-grounds, and affording, 

 in the myriads of Entotnostraca found there, abundant food for the newly- 

 hatched fish. 



Of the total list of British fishes, one-ffth more are found in Norfolk 

 than are found in any other county, comprising many very interesting 

 species and some of great rarity. 



The localities given are, in large measure, derived from : — 



The Natural History of Yarmouth^ by Messrs. Paget. 

 Sir Thomas Browne's List, written in 1666. 

 The late Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes. 

 Lubbock's Fauna of Norfolk. 

 The L'Estrange Household Book. 



The abbreviations used are as follows : — 



P.— Paget. 



J. H. G. — The late Mr. John Henry Gurney. 



T. S. — Mr. T. Southwell, Norwich \ from whom much valuable recent informa- 



A. P. — Mr. A. Patterson, Yarmouth j tion has been derived. 



These, as well as a number of other observers, have made import- 

 ant additions to the list. The following is a list of the fishes known to 

 occur in the Norfolk waters^: — 



TELEOSTEANS 



ACANTHOPTERYGII the same broad in 1879, and another at 



*I. Perch. PercafluviatUis, Linn. '^^°^^^ "^'l^^' ^^^^ ^'^^ '^^°- 



The late Mr. Gurney observed that in the *2- Ruff or Pope. Jcerina cernua, Linn. 

 Yare and Bure they are much larger near ' Has an especial Norfolk interest. It was 



the mouths of the rivers, where the water is first discovered, according to Cuvier, by an 



brackish, than higher up where this is not the Englishman named Caius^ (Dr.), who found 

 case. Mr. Day confirms this view. A perch <,,,,. ^ 



taken in Ormesby Broad, September 14th, , J°'^\^7" or Cams founder of Caius Col- 



1866, was recorded by Mr. Gunn in the l^f. Cambridge, and we^l known as the author of 



r, , '. ... ■', ,, , . Tie Merrie fVives o/ffindsor, washorn itNorwich, 



Zoologist as we.ghmg 4i lb-, and measurmg ,5,^ ^ „^ .^j ^,^^ ^j^^^^^j ^^ ^^^^ P^^^ School. 



18 inches m length. Mr. Southwell men- He joined Gonville College, of which he was 



tions one of the same dimensions, taken in afterwards a Fellow. 



' Aspredo fluviatilis pisces est toto corpore asper, 



1 An asterisk (*) indicates occurrence in fresh pinnis spinosis, perca: forma et magnitudine. Locis 



water only, two asterisks (**) in both fresh and salt gaudet arenosis, et cum alibi in Britannil turn 



water. praecipue in Hiero flumine quod nostrum nordo- 



