FLYING FISH. 390 



Dr. Hey sham, in his Catalogue of Cumberland Animals, 

 prefixed to Hutchinson 1 s History of that county, says at 

 page 32 " Another Flying Fish was seen at Allonby, in 

 September 1796, by Mr. Chancellor Carlyle, when he was 

 bathing : it was near the shore, and upon the surface of 

 the water, and came within a yard of him.'*' 1 According to 

 Dr. Fleming, another occurred in July 1823, ten miles from 

 Bridgewater, in the Bristol Channel, a notice of which was 

 communicated to the Linnean Society by the Rev. S. L. 

 Jacob. 



The following letter appears in the fortieth number of the 

 Royal Institution Journal, addressed to the editor. 



"Sin, 



"In going down Channel on the 23rd of August last, 

 with light winds from the E.N.E. inclinable to calm, when 

 off Portland, we were surprised by the appearance of a rather 

 large shoal of what is commonly called the Flying Fish. 

 They were evidently closely pursued by some one of their 

 numerous enemies, from the frequent and long flights which 

 they took ; but it was impossible to discover what that 

 enemy was, though passing close to the vessel. The fact 

 may possibly interest some of your numerous scientific 

 readers. J. C. W." 



" Sunder land, Dec. 2nd, 1825." 



From the MS. of Mr. Couch another instance may be 

 quoted of a Flying Fish " which threw itself on shore 

 on the sandy margin of Helford River, near Falmouth, 

 at full two miles from the open sea, where it was found 

 while yet living. I was informed by Mr. John Fox, of 

 Plymouth, in whose collection this specimen was in 1828, 

 that it measured sixteen inches in extreme length, and that 

 the pectoral fin was eight and a half inches long : a size 



