SOME FISH NOTES 327 



THE FLYING-FISH 



The following note was sent by me to the Zoologist (Feb- 

 ruary, 1906) and may not be out of place here : 



" The records in the Zoologist of the occurrence of flying- 

 fish on the Kentish coast are interesting, and recalled to me 

 an account of one whose ' fin ' was exhibited in the Fisheries 

 Exhibition in London in 1883. I have hunted up the 

 Catalogue of Exhibits made by the well-known Norwich 

 naturalist, Mr. T. E. Gunn, and find the following : 



" ' Case 50 FLYING FISH. Fin of flying fish (Exocatus 

 volitans) ; specimen caught off Yarmouth, May 23rd, 

 1868. . . . Only known instance on this part of the eastern 

 coast. I submitted it to the late Dr. J. E. Gray, of the 

 British Museum, who identified the species for me.' 



" For many years I have watched for an example to turn 

 up, but as yet without success. I have not included this 

 ' capture ' in my Nature in Eastern Norfolk, for the simple 

 reason that neither in the second edition of Lubbock's 

 Fauna of Norfolk, nor in any of the Transactions of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, is Mr. Gunn's 

 specimen referred to. It would be well, however, for all 

 East coast naturalists to be on the qui vive, and help to more 

 firmly establish the claim of this fish to be on the Norfolk 

 list/' 



I have been since assured by Mr. F. Leney that this, flying- 

 fish's " fin " is now in the Norwich Museum Collection. 



HOLIBUT-PLAICE 



When passing through one of the back streets on August 

 1 7th, 1905, my attention was attracted by a very queerly 

 coloured fish lying exposed on the slab of a small fish-shop. 

 The fish was sixteen inches in length, and its shape at once 

 struck me as exhibiting a blending of plaice and holibut. 

 The colour of the upper side was bluish ash, the edges, 

 nearing the fins, assuming a Naples yellow tint ; the sur- 

 rounding fins being the same colour as the back, and the 

 tail somewhat darker, several orange-coloured spots, not 

 nearly so pronounced as in an ordinary plaice, being 

 sprinkled about on the upper side. The irides were straw- 



