ON THE CHANGE OF COLOUR IN THE BOAR-FISH. 385 
In July, 1844, about two hundred were taken in a trawl off 
Runnelstone, and others continued to be captured for three 
months in the neighbourhood, and along the coast near Land’s 
End, a tract not much visited by the Mount’s Bay fishing boats. 
In 1845 more were taken in the same locality; one at Falmouth 
in June, 1846; another at Bridgwater in May, 1850, which proved 
to be full of spawn; and many other solitary instances were 
subsequently recorded. In March, 1868, an immature example 
was washed ashore in White-sand Bay, Land’s End, having 
a well-defined black spot at the upper part of the base of the 
caudal fin. 
Since then I find the following instances recorded in ‘ The 
Zoologist’:—One from the Scilly Isles in 1870; one from Tor- 
cross in 1875; a shoal of fifteen taken on the south-west coast of 
Cornwall, and exhibited in the Crystal Palace Aquarium. In 
1879 a number were washed ashore on the Dorsetshire coast, 
on the sand-banks at Poole, during the night of March 80th; 
some of them contained spawn, while Mr. Penney considered 
that as food they were delicious, their flesh possessing a creamy 
whiteness and a delicate flavour. In April of the same year two 
were recorded from Exmouth; two in February from Torquay ; 
in May one was picked up on the beach at Eastbourne, and 
another brought alive into Grimsby from the mouth of the Humber. 
Mr. Dunn, of Mevagissey, in some interesting remarks upon 
the fishes of that locaiity, written in October, 1878, observes :— 
“Common here from the Start to the Lizard; these past five years 
they seem to be on the increase; thousands are yearly caught 
by Plymouth trawlers off Deadman headland, and thousands more 
are brought to land by our drift fishermen. In June and July 
last year I had over one hundred and fifty alive in my tanks at 
one time.” 
Last year Mr. Carrington recorded the capture of the Boar- 
fish from various parts of the south and south-east coast of 
England during the month of June. The localities noted were 
Weymouth, Bournemouth, Sheerness, Harwich, and Southend-on- 
Sea. This fish has also been captured in Scotland, as already’ 
observed. Edward also informs us of another example having 
been taken near Covie, in Banffshire, in August, 1862; while, in 
Treland, Andrews obtained it in 1858 off Ventry Harbour. 
This fish, the appearance of which in Britain was first noticed 
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