226 Yellow and Allman's Shrimp. 



close an observer that we have no hesitation in accepting his 

 statement, corroborated by fellow shrimpers. He says it is of a 

 buff tint, slightly smaller than the pink shrimp, and at times 

 is taken along with them in the proportion of about one-third 

 the numbers. When it appears there is usually a falling off of 

 the pink shrimps. He thinks they migrate from the north, at 

 least he has never .met with them south of the Tongue or Queen's 

 Channel, seeming, like the pink shrimp, to prefer hard 

 ground. Messrs. Lynn and Gibson, of Billingsgate, assure us 

 that at times among their consignments from Briglitlingsea 

 many examples of the Yellow Shrimp turn up. Patterson (7.c.) 

 has found them " commonest in August " at Yarmouth. He 

 considers it superior in flavour to the pink or brown shrimp, 

 but Johnson is of an opposite opinion. White names it 

 " Hailstone's Shrimp," first described from Hastings, where 

 they are known as "pug shrimps."* It is said to carry spawn 

 in March (Hailstone), July at Plymouth (Weldon). The eggs 

 are of a "light red green" colour (Thompson). 



(3) The CHANNEL-TAILED SHRIMP (Crangon Allmanni), of 

 FIG. 27. Kinabanf, is not easily noticed among a 



heap of the Common Shrimps, whether 

 alive or cooked, so like are the two in 

 general appearance. Closer examina- 

 tion, however, shows the former, 

 otherwise Allman's Shrimp, to possess 

 a characteristic grooving on the upper 

 side of its sixth tail-piece and other 

 less pronounced differences (Fig. 27). 

 We have only had a few 1J and If inch 

 Upper view tail of Allman's specimens under observation. These 

 WettS^TS -<*e got in mid-October in the neigh- 

 (after Kinahan). bourhood of the Nore, and detected as 



* See Yarrell, "Brit. Stalk-eyed Crust.," 1853, and Adam White, "Popular Hist. 

 Brit. Crustacea," 1857. 



t Proe. Roy. Irish Acad., Vol. VIII., 1864, and Trans. R.I. Acad. Vol. XXIV., 

 Sci., 1871. 



