Kent and Essex Fishes generally. 37 



Medway at Gillingham Reach, August, 1888 (fig. 5). The 

 carcass was sold by the Deputy Receiver of Wrecks for 6 to 

 the fisherman who first saw it, and who after exhibiting it a few 

 days had it buried. Rudolphi's Rorqual is outwardly distin- 

 guished from, the Razor-back by its jet-black colour above, 

 clearer white below, higher back fin, and relatively smaller flip* 

 pers and robust body. 



FIG. 6. 



Photo by C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 



Northern, or Rudolphi's, Rorqual, Tilbury, 19th October, 1887. 



Specimen as mounted in the Nat. Hist. Museum, S. Kensington, 



showing belly plaiting, front view.* 



FOOD-FISHES AND OTHERS. 



The Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries District is probably 

 best known, and justly, for its shell-fish, small crustaceans 

 and flat-fish generally. This, to a certain extent, might be 

 anticipated, inasmuch as the great stretch of shallow water 

 warrants the inference (Sect. II.). Moreover, beyond the said 

 shallower shore fringe the wedge-shaped deep, mid-water strip 

 (mentioned p. 14) at the Southern extremity of the North 

 Sea, thinning towards Dover Strait, and a reverse wedge 

 thence westwards along the English Channel, helps materially 

 to alter the character of the fish and fisheries. Indeed, as a 



* For the use of Figs. 4 and 6 we are indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors 

 and Editor of the " Royal Maerazine," the illustrations having appeared there, 

 January, 1899, in an article on Whales, by Mr. Charles Ray. 



