FISHES 



Blakeney and Burnham ; a small, round, 

 slender fish, about three or four inches long, 

 as big as a small tobacco-pipe ; a very dainty 

 dish.' 



8i. Garfish. Be/one vulgaris, Flem. 



Lynn Roads. — Mr. E. L. King. 



Lubbock says this has been taken within 

 five miles of Norwich. 



' The acus major, called by some garfish and 

 greenback, answering the figure of Ronde- 

 letius, under the name of acus prima species, 

 remarkable for its quadrangular figure and 

 verdigris-green bone.' — Sir T. Browne. 



In the editor's footnote this is incorrectly 

 given as Centriscus scolopax, a Mediterranean 

 fish, not likely to be caught on the Norfolk 

 coasts. 



82. Skipper. Scombresox saurus, Walb. 



Yarmouth.— 7. H. G. 



'Two specimens, about 16 inches long, 

 caught October 25th, 1844, are now in the 

 Norwich Museum.' 



Blakeney Harbour, December 7th, 1846. 

 —Rev. E. W. Dowell. 



Sir T. Browne remarks : ' The saurus we 

 sometimes meet with young. Rondeletius 

 confesseth it a very rare fish, somewhat re- 

 sembling the acus or needle-fish before, and 

 mackerel behind.' 



HEMIBRANCHII 



**83. Three-spined Stickleback. Gastrosteus 

 aculeatus, Linn. 

 In the Ouse immense quantities of this 

 species are often caught and sold for manure, 

 or used as bait for eel. Mr. Gurney states 

 that in the saltmarshes at Cley and Salthouse, 

 where they are very numerous, they appear 

 to form the chief food of the little tern during 

 the nesting season. 



**84. Ten-spined Stickleback. Gastrosteus 

 pungitius, Linn. 



In ditches near Lynn ; it is not very com- 

 mon. The number of species vary. 



' Three were sent me by the Rev. W. 

 Millard from a ditch near Shimbling.' — T. S. 



' Mr. F. Norgate writes : February 23rd, 

 1883: "Is abundant in meadow drains at 

 Sparham." Mr. Louis Buxton also found it 

 not uncommon in his lake at Bolwick Hall, 

 1 88 1 .' — T. S. In west Norfolk it is not very 

 common. 



Mr. Gurney saw one taken from the 

 stomach of a cod-fish purchased in Norwich 

 market. 



Yarmouth : 'frequent,' 1897. 



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LOPHOBRANCHII 



fish. Siphonostoma 



Broad - nosed Pipe 

 typhle, Linn. 



Norfolk Estuary. One which was taken 

 at Heacham is in the Norwich Museum. 

 Yarmouth. — P. 



87. Greater Pipe-fish. Syngnathus acus, Linn. 

 Common. 



The following note is worth recording in 

 reference to this species which abounds in the 

 Norfolk Estuary : ' Acus item apud nos non 

 vulgaris pisces est, nici circa phanum Botolphi 

 quod nostri Boston, quasi Botolphis toune diceres 

 Hornbeke nostri dicunt a corneo 

 quod habet rostro ' (Dr. Caius De Canibus 

 Britannicis, fol. 26, 1 570). 



88. Snake Pipe-fish. Nerophis lequoreus, Linn. 



Mr. Elwes has taken this in the Norfolk 

 Estuary. Mr. A. Patterson found one washed 

 up on the beach at Yarmouth, the first taken 

 in that locality {Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. v. 

 p. 230). 



89. Straight-nosed Pipe-fish. Nerophis ophi- 



dian, Linn. 



Norfolk Estuary, June I2th, 1871. Mr. 

 E. L. King. 



85. Fifteen-spined Stickleback. 

 spinachia, Linn. 

 Yarmouth : ' rather rare.' — P. 



90. Sea - horse. Hippocampus antiquorum. 

 Leach. 



Yarmouth. This is given in Messrs. 

 Paget's list, but there is no other record of its 

 having been taken on the Norfolk coast. 



HAPLOMI 



*9i. Pike. Esox lucius, Linn. 



' Attains a large size in the Norfolk Broads, 

 from 25 to 35 lb.' — Lubbock. 



Mr. R. R. B. Norman mentions (in Land 

 and Water, 1873) o"^ taken in the broads 

 near Yarmouth, which weighed 36^ lb. and 

 was 54 inches long ; it was caught with a 

 trimmer. Two pike, caught on February 

 17th, 1880, in two different localities in 

 Norfolk, both with rod and line, measured 

 respectively 47 and 46 inches in length. The 

 former weighed 36 lb. and the latter 30^ lb. ; 

 Gastrosteus they were both full females. Mr. Gunn 

 says that he has never met with a male pike 

 weighing more than 20 lb. 



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