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unusual by the quick eye of R. Johnson, jun. They may be 

 commoner than suspected, though passing current as brown 

 shrimps.* The three preceding shrimps have not previously 

 been recorded from our District. 



(4) The COMMON or BROWN SHRIMP (Crangon vulgaris). 

 Distribution. This species is met with all round the coasts of 

 Kent and Essex, from Sussex nigh to South Suffolk, and it 

 ascends the estuaries to almost beyond the brackish water. 

 Possibly in the neighbourhood of the South Foreland it is less 

 frequent than elsewhere. At least, " Dover is one of the very 

 few seaside resorts where shrimping does not commend itself as 

 a livelihood to any of its inhabitants " the shrimps sold there 

 being imported (Webb and Horsnaill). Along the great sandy 

 bay from Dymchurch to Romney we have seen the shove- 

 netters (hand or push-nets) at work getting fair catches. 

 Pegwell Bay, with its sands, is a'nother noted locality during 

 summer for fine brown shrimps. But from Ramsgate round 

 the North Foreland it gets scarcer. Thereabouts, seemingly, 

 on the harder ground, the pink shrimp (Pandalus) replaces it. 



Our information, derived from the elder and most experi- 

 enced Leigh shrimpers, leads to the following conclusion. 

 That taking a line from the neighbourhood of the Naze or 

 Harwich southwards, cutting the Grunfleet, Middle Sunk and 

 Shingles, thence onwards towards the Herne Bay direction, all 

 westward of this to the Lower Hope and Gravesend Reach may 

 be regarded (likewise in the other Essex estuaries) as brown 

 shrimp ground. Everywhere within said area, whether in 

 mid-channel's deeper water, or among the shallow sand-banks, 

 or on the shores of sand or mud irrespectively, there they are 

 to be found, few or many, according to circumstances. To the 

 eastward of the above-mentioned line is the chief area of the 

 pink shrimp. There is, however, no such hard and fast line 

 as above indicated, for here and there the brown shrimp juts 



* In the Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc. for 1891 (Shrimp Enquiry), Mr. Aecroft, of 

 Lytham, Lancashire, states that there are great numbers of L'rangvn Allmanni taken 

 amongst the other shrimps thereabouts. 



