PREFACE. Vll 



writing, of observations on fishes and fishing, made during his 

 long residence near the coast in Devonshire, has with the 

 greatest kindness most liberally allowed the whole of these 

 notes to be transcribed. 



The author is also indebted to W. Walcott, Esq. of Bris- 

 tol, for the use of a valuable manuscript, with a collection 

 of more than one hundred drawings of British Fishes, exe- 

 cuted by his father, the author of the Synopsis of British 

 Birds, and other works on natural history, during his resi- 

 dence at Teignmouth. 



To Sir William Jardine, Bart, the author is under obli- 

 gations for many examples, and various communications on 

 the species of the genus Salmo, from which materials were 

 drawn for the elucidation of this difficult but important 

 genus. 



Dr. George Johnston of Berwick-upon-Tweed, whose 

 name will be found to occur very frequently in this work, 

 has very kindly transmitted rare specimens from that locality, 

 with various notices of the natural history of some of the 

 most remarkable species of the eastern coast. 



The author is also desirous of recording his thanks to Dr. 

 Edward Moore of Plymouth, for frequent communications 

 on the fishes taken in that neighbourhood, and an extensive 

 catalogue of local names. 



To W. Thompson, Esq. of Belfast, Vice-President of 

 the Natural History Society of that town, the author's 

 thanks are due for many valuable notes of the fishes of the 

 Irish lakes, and communications of the occurrence of many 

 marine species at various localities on the Irish coast. 



The author's acknowledgments are especially due to his 

 friend E. T. Bennett, Esq. Secretary of the Zoological 

 Society, for his valuable advice and assistance throughout the 

 progress of the work. 



