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Mr. Symons also took on the spiller (which is a line fishing at the very 
bottom, and this makes the catches remarkable), on the 7th instant, a 
salmon peal, and another the next day.—Thomas Cornish; Penzance, 
September 9, 1876. 
Tadpole-fish, or Trifureated Hake, off Penzance.—A specimen of the tad- 
pole-fish, or trifurcated hake (Raniceps trifurcatus), has been taken on rocky 
bottom in about four fathoms of water, a mile from shore. This fish is 
remarkable, whether alive or dead, for its exceedingly unpleasant odour.— 
Id. ; September 22, 1876. 
Flying-fish (EZxocetus evolans) in the Bristol Channel.—While on a 
yachting cruise on the south coast and in the mouth of the Bristol Channel, 
last month, we saw, within about one hundred yards of the yacht, a shoal of 
flying fish spring from the water and fly just above the surface for about 
twelve yards. I was not aware that these fish came so near our shores, 
but our captain informed me that it was not the first time he had seen them 
in our English seas.—IV. Taylor; Chad Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 
September 15, 1876. 
Capros aper.—A small shoal of boar-fish (Capros aper, Lacepéde) is now 
on exhibition in one of the smaller tanks of the Crystal Palace Aquarium. 
These were obtained on the extreme south-west coast of Cornwall, not far 
from the Land’s End. The exhibition of these very beautiful and highly- 
coloured fish in a metropolitan aquarium is one example of the marked 
advance of aquarian knowledge. They were conveyed many miles by road 
and rail, and after the journey, as may be easily imagined, were in a weakly 
condition. After having been on exhibition a fortnight, however, fifteen out 
of sixteen are alive and well, one being dead on arrival.—John 7’. Carrington ; 
Crystal Palace Aquarium, September 25, 1876. 
Parasitic Sea-Anemones.—It has long been known that some intimate 
bond of attachment exists between two species of hermit crabs (Pagurus) 
and two species of anemones (Actinaria). Pagurus Prideauxii and Adamsia 
palliata are very rarely, if ever, found alone, but generally in company with 
each other; and, what is still more astonishing, young hermits are always 
associated with young anemones. They grow together, never separating— 
unless by some untoward accident—while life lasts. ‘The anemone is fixed 
to the lip of the shell inhabited by the hermit, its lateral lobes expanding 
and meeting ina suture on the top. It is thus carried with its tentacles 
hanging? down under the legs of the crab, and gathers its food—to use 
Mr. W. A. Lloyd’s graphic expression—* like a sweeping-machine, which 
collects what it removes.” When the hermit changes its residence, after 
having first ascertained that the new quarters are comfortable, it returns to 
the old one, carefully peels off the anemone and causes it to adhere to the 
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