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the past summer and early autumn, on both the Wigtonshire and Kireud- 
brightshire coasts. One day in the month of August I got a Bloch’s 
gurnard, more the next day, and still more on the following day. This 
species has hitherto been very uncommon on the southern coasts (as far as 
my own knowledge extends) of Scotland; but rare fish of many sorts came 
to hand during the past season, including a very fine shark cast up neat 
Whithorn, Wigtonshire, but which unluckily I did not see at the time.— 
Alexander Clark-Kennedy ; November 2, 1875. 
Sun-fish in Fleet Bay, Galioway—On a very hot day early, during the 
month of June last, the fisherman belonging to the house where I was 
then staying (Cally, near Gatehouse-of-Fleet) found a very fine sun-fish in 
the salmon-nets at the entrance of Fleet Bay: he kept it until it was 
offensive without showing it to anyone, and then threw it away; he was, 
however, a good ichthyologist, and had only once before caught a sunfish in 
thirty years’ experience as a fisherman on various coasts of Scotland.—Zd. 
Sun-fish at Overstrand in Norfolk.—On the 30th of October a sun-fish 
answering to Yarrell’s description of the short sun-fish was observed at 
Overstrand, floundering about in the surf. It was such a big one (measuring 
fifty-two inches in length—dorsal fin nineteen inches and a half) that it was 
only with the greatest difficulty the fishermen got it ashore, when it was 
found to have grated its mouth so much that its lips were quite rubbed 
away.—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Large Sun-fish off the North of Scotland.—During the first week in 
November some fishermen brought into Edinburgh a specimen of the short 
sun-fish, estimated to weigh twelve cwt. The measurements are—length six 
feet four inches; depth of body three feet six inches; thickness of body one 
foot six inches. It was captured off the extreme North of Scotland.—‘ Times.’ 
Tunny on the Somersetshire Coast.—A fish of extraordinary size has 
just been taken by Messrs. Stone, fishermen, at Steart Point, on the 
Somersetshire coast, having been left on the mud by the receding tide, and 
when found it was nearly dead. The fish is a specimen of the tunny; its 
dimensions are—seyen feet six inches in length; five feet in circumference ; 
and two feet nine inches across the tail; its weight is about three 
ewt. The tunny is generally found in the Mediterranean, and, according 
to the late Mr. Couch, appears on the Cornish coast in the summer and 
autumn, but is not often taken, because it does not often swallow a bait, or 
at least the fishermen use no bait that is acceptable to it, and its size and 
strength seldom suffer it to become entangled in their nets. It feeds on 
pilchards, herrings, and perhaps most other small fishes.—‘ Western Morning 
News’ (Plymouth newspaper) of November 11, 1875. [Communicated by 
W. Pengelly, Esq.] 
The Maigre off Yarmouth.—Those of your readers who are interested in 
Ichthyology will be pleased to hear that they have an opportunity, through 
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