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1882. The fishermen observed it struggling in what is called " the lake," 

 where the water remains iuside the bar at low tides. The fish was nearly 

 exhausted, and its captor informed me only flapped its gills a few times 

 before being lauded. It measured ten feet from the tip of the sword to a 

 point equidistant between the lobes of the tail-fin. — H. W. Feilden (West 

 House, Wells, Norfolk). 



Fox Shark, or "Thresher," off the Coast of Devon.— This Shark 

 so frequently occurs on the Devonshire coast in autumn — following the 

 Pilchards as they ascend the channel— that it is hardly worth while 

 recording each capture. One which I saw, on the '^4th September last, at 

 Exmouth, was taken the day before off Teignmouth. It was ten feet long, 

 and therefore rather a small specimen, the usual size being thirteen or 

 fourteen feet, including the tail. In October, 1874,1 received one only 

 four feet in total length, which had been taken at Brixham. The skin of 

 this fish is so very tender that few persons can succeed in removing it 

 entire for preservation. — W. S. M. D'Urban (Albuera, Exeter). 



Large Carp in Sussex. — One day in November last the Earl of 



Sheffield, fishing in his private water at Sheffield Park, Sussex, caught a 

 Carp which weighed 19 lbs. 



Brill with both sides coloured. — On the 6th September last, when 

 Mr. A. K. Hamilton was trawling in his steam yacht ' Starlight' off the 

 Pole Sand at Exmouth, he took a Brill having the deficiency in the 

 continuance of the dorsal outline just behind the head which is mentioned 

 by Couch, in his 'Fishes of the British Islands' (vol. iii., p. 197), as being 

 occasionally observed in the Flounder. As in that fish, this notch behind 

 the head is accompanied by coloration of the under, or usually white, side, 

 with the exception of a white blotch on the gill-covers. — W. S. M. D'Urban 

 (Albuera, Exeter). 



CRUSTACEA. 



Scyllarus arctus at Plymouth.— On the 13th November, last two 

 specimens of that rare Crustacean, Scyllarus arctus, were brought up in a 

 trawl off Plymouth, and are now in the possession of Mr. \Y. Hoarder. — 

 John Gatcombe (55, Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth). 



[We may remind our leaders that this lobster-like Crustacean is figured 

 in 'The Zoologist' for December, 1879, p. 473, in illustration of remarks 

 on the species by Mr. Cornish. — Ed.] 



ARCHEOLOGY. 



Ancient Camps in Epping Forest. — The British Association has 

 appointed a committee for the exploration of the ancient camps in Epping 

 Forest. It has been found that on both sides of the Thames "dene holes" 



