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and salted condition, captured at Alnmouth, on the Northumberland coast, 
which is undoubtedly a Mugil, and which I judge to be the Lesser Grey 
Mullet, Mugil chelo of Yarrell and Couch. It was unknown to the local 
fishermen. It is twenty inches over all, and sixteen inches from eye to 
fork, but I cannot give any other measurements. It agrees in all its 
remaining aspects with the description given by Yarrell, except in the 
following :—The nostrils in my specimen are wide apart. ‘The anal fin 
appears to have only one spinous ray, instead of three; the caudal appears 
to have cighteen rays, instead of sixteen. ‘There is in my specimen a hard 
leathery double tubercle in the palate without teeth, which may have 
become fleshy and hardened by the process of salting. I do not recollect 
having ever seen this Mullet before, and certainly never of such a size; 
but its principal features of breadth of head, dentition, peculiarities of its 
superior maxillary bone, size of scale, and arrangement of seven marked 
horizontal lines along its sides, make me believe very strongly that I am 
not mistaken in my identification. —THomas CornisH (Prussia Cove, 
Marazion). 
Toe Maicre, oR SHADE-FISH, OFF THE DyonsHIRE Coast.— 
T received a specimen of this rare fish on August 30th from a fish-merchant 
at Beer, it having been taken by the Beer fishermen in a pollack-net. It 
measured 2 feet 83 inches in length, and 1 foot 4% inches in girth over the 
pectoral fins. The colour was plain grey, and the general appearance was very 
much like that of a Bass. On dissection I could find no trace of the small 
hand-like appendages which usually fringe the thick leathery swimming- 
bladder. The stomach was empty. There were a number of finger-like 
appendages. The gill-covers were very slightly serrated. The anterior — 
pharyngeal bones were armed with conical scabrid projections in two rows. 
This is the second specimen I have had an opportunity of examining. The 
_ first was taken off Teignmouth in a pilchard-seine on October 3rd, 1872, 
and measured 5 feet and } an inch in length, and 2 feet 10 inches in girth 
over the pectoral fins. Its weight was 74 tbs. Adhering to the scales I found 
several specimens of the Holibut Leech, Hntobdella hippoglossi. In its 
stomach were six Monkfish (each about a foot in length), six small Pilchards, 
and a small Sole. Some of the flesh was cooked and found very palatable, 
much resembling Mackarel in flavour.— W. 8. M. D’Ursay (Albert Memorial 
Museum, Exeter). 
Ecxstrom’s ‘T'opKNot AND CoucH’s ERYTHRINUS ON THE CORNWALL 
Coast.—On August 26th in Pra Sand, on “splatty” ground (i. e., ground 
of which the base is sand, over which are scattered numerous detached 
rocks covered with sea-weed), I took a specimen of Kckstrom’s Topknot, 
Rhombus cardina, I believe the first recorded as captured in Mount’s Bay. 
As it was alive when taken, I am able to say that the gape is not wide, as 
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