FISHES 



38. Common Weever. Trachinus vipera, 



Cuv. & Val. 



In Sir T. Browne's list this species rather 

 than the preceding is referred to : ' A sting- 

 fish, wiver, or kind of ophthidion, about 4 

 inches long, with a sharp, small, prickly fin 

 along the back, which often venomously 

 pricketh the hands of fishermen.' 



39. Dragonet or Dusky Skulpin. Callionymus 



lyra, Linn. 



Norfolk Estuary : common. 



Yarmouth : ' very rare.' — P. 



The dusky skulpin is now proved to be 

 the female or immature male of this species. 

 In the estuary the adult male is comparatively 

 rare, and the colours seldom bright as in other 

 localities where the water is clearer. The 

 amount of alluvial matter held in suspension 

 would seem to prevent the colouring action of 

 the light. 



40. Two-spotted Sucker. Lepadogaster bi- 



macuiatus, Penn. 

 For the only record of this being taken on 

 the Norfolk coast I am indebted to the Rev. 

 E. W. Dowell, who caught one at Blakeney, 

 in July, 1846. 



4 1 . Angler. Lophius piscatorius, Linn. 

 Common on our coast. 



One brought into Yarmouth June 3rd, 

 1897, weighed I cwt. — J. P. 



' The Rana piscatrix, or frog-fish, is some- 

 times found in large magnitude.' — Sir T. 

 Browne. 



42. Wolf-fish. Anarrhichm lupus^ Linn. 

 Yarmouth. — P. 



Mr. Gurney writes : ' I have seen a itvi 

 taken off the East Norfolk coast, one is in 

 the Norwich Museum.' ' One measuring 

 36^ inches long was washed up on Cromer 

 beach, August 6th, 1874.' — J. H. G. 



Sir T. Browne makes mention of the ' sea 

 wolf, or Lupus nostras of Schoneveldus, re- 

 markable for its spotted skin and notable 

 teeth.' 



One in the Wisbeach Museum was taken 

 in the Norfolk Estuary. 



43. Gattorugine. Blennius gattorugine, Bloch. 

 'On May 25th, 1897, Mr. Patterson sent 



me a specimen of this fish, which was taken 

 on the 2 1st in a shrimp-net off Yarmouth.' — 

 T. S. He records a second specimen May 

 2 1st, 1900. 



This, the largest of the British blennies, has 

 not been met with previously in Norfolk. It 

 is therefore an important addition to the fauna 

 of Norfolk. 



44. Shannay. Blennius pholis, Linn. 

 Cromer : ' among stones at low tide.' — 



J. H. G. 



45. Butterfish. C entronotus gunnelluSy h'\nn, 

 Norfolk Estuary : common. 

 Yarmouth.— P. Cromer.— 7. H. G. 



46. Viviparous Blenny. Zoarces viviparus, 



Linn. 



Norfolk Estuary. Yarmouth. — P. 



Mr. Gurney says : ' Adult specimens are 

 found near the beach, Lowestoft, and in the 

 later summer months young ones, about an 

 inch in length, are abundant in the upper 

 part of the inner harbour at Lowestoft, where 

 they frequent the weed banks and, I think, 

 burrow in them.' 



ANACANTHINI 



47. Cod. Gadus morrhuay Linn. 



' It used to be thought that the finest cod 

 supplied to the Norwich fish-market were 

 those sent up from Sherringham, which were 

 usually found to have been feeding on crabs.' 

 -J. H. G. 



Mr. Day, in his work on ' British Fishes,' 

 has a curious note on what might be con- 

 sidered a Norfolk example of this species. 

 ' The contents of their stomach are almost 

 infinite {sic) — from one, captured in Lynn 

 Deeps, one Midsummer eve, 1626, and 

 brought to the vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 

 was taken a book in three treatises ' (vol. i. 

 p. 279). 



48. Haddock. Gadus teglefinus, Linn. 

 Norfolk Estuary : common, Yarmouth. 



—P. 



In Sir T. Browne's list : '■Ascellus minor 

 Schoneveldi {Callarius plinii) or haddocks.' 



49. Bib or Pont. Gadus luscus, Linn. 

 Norfolk Estuary. Yarmouth. — Patterson. 



50. Power or Poor Cod. Gadus minutus, 



Linn. 



Mr. Patterson sends me a note of an ex- 

 ample, 4 inches long, taken in a shrimp-net 

 off Yarmouth, February 12th, 1893. He 

 recorded the first Norfolk specimen, which he 

 found at Yarmouth, April 6th, 1890, in the 

 Transactions of that year (vol. v. p. 228). 

 One, 10 inches in length, October 12th, 

 1894; another, November, 1894; and one, 

 March i6th, 1897, 7^ inches. — A. P. {Trans. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. vi. p. 3). 



Since its first detection in 1890 specimens 

 have been occasionally taken by longshore and 

 shrimp-netters, from 7 to 10 inches in length. 



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