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206 Note—Fishes. 
Gadus virens. Coal-fish. There is at present a large 
quantity of Billets (young Coal-fish) in what is known as 
Saltwick Hole; on catching and gutting three of them 
(weighing about 7 lbs. each), a total of 18 Smelts (young 
of the Sa/mo salar), each about 5 inches long, were dis- 
covered to have been eaten by them 
July 29.—Clupea harengus. Herring. Two catches (400 and 
500 respectively) were landed at W hitby, and were sold at 
4s. 6d. and 5s. per hundred. 
Sept.—Zoarces viviparus. i eesti Blenny. Two were . 
caught in Whitby Harbou 
Lamna cornubica. ae Shark. A very small 
one, about 3 feet long, was caught in the herring nets and 
brought ‘inte Whitby. 
Oct.—Pleuronectes limanda. Dab. One, weighing 2 lbs. 
10 oz., Was caught in a net in Whitby Harbour. 
Oct. 24, einer centrodontus. Sea Bream. One brought 
into Whit 
Nov. plies maculatus. Ballan Wrasse. Brought by 
one of the cobles. 
Nov. 20.—Labrus maculatus. Ballan Wrasse. Brought by 
one of the cobles. 
Nov. 23.—-Labrus maculatus. Ballan Wrasse. Two were 
brought by one of the cobles. 
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NOTE— FISHES. 
c Chimera in the North Sea.—I have recently a one of 
rosa 
‘ Gri n brought in by he 
the last three wreaks. tt appears 6 be more nearly allied to the Sharks 
than to any other genus. The s' eleton is cartilaginous, and the head, 
which I have prepared, seems pgp ted of substances like thick parch- 
ment, the skull itself being very s y Bish alate to the mass of fles 
which covers it. All the ihusteations have seen fail, in some respect or 
other, accurately to represent the fresh fis h In the present example the 
length was a little over three feet, ema! graduating to the tail, which 
€ upper jaw tag road an fluted incisors; on t palate, and con- 
_» the ug S. a fis a very a 
poof back to the Lias. Ju dging pases its ea eth it probably fee fee es on 
