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flesh ate like that of the Weaver, with a piquant suggestion of 

 seaweedy aroma. 



February 11th. Several 1 lb. Flounders brought me from 

 Lowestoft. Of three females I examined and ate, one with an 

 unbroken roe was firm and well flavoured ; a second in process 

 of spawning was soft, limp, and flavourless. Evidently the 

 species deteriorates rapidly by the process. 



A glut of 10 in. Greater Weevers (Trachinus draco), hawked 

 around the town, from the north-east coast of Norfolk. 



A huge Eel, 64 in. long, 21^ in. in girth, weight 32^ lb. 

 From the description and sketch sent me by a friend, who saw 

 it exhibited at Lowestoft, I have little hesitation in recording it 

 as a barren female ; it compared in almost every particular with 

 one I saw at Yarmouth on September 30th, 1909 (cf, 'Zoologist,' 

 1910, p. 65), which weighed 24 lb. 



[I cannot claim for my Yarmouth list of fishes the Pennant's 

 Globe Fish {Tetrodon pennantii, Yarrell). On February 27th I 

 was fortunate in seeing a fairly well-preserved example of this 

 species in the house of a woman whose husband discovered it 

 among a " shot " from the trawl-net (so she informed me) when 

 fishing in the North Sea, at no great distance from the county, in 

 one of the Hewett's smacks (a long since dissolved company). He 

 had himself preserved it. I give the record for what it is worth.] 



A noticeable movement of the Bib {Gadus luscus) or "Whiting- 

 pout." Fairly common off Aldeburgh, well-grown, it is not 

 frequent north of Yarmouth, but quite a number taken early in 

 March in the neighbourhood of Cromer Knowle. Very immature 

 examples are plentiful enough in the local shrimpers' nets in 

 early summer. 



I saw a " Slinky " Cod on March 24th of some length, but most 

 disreputable for its leanness ; it was a veritable skeleton, encased 

 in a shrivelled-up skin. It exhibited no parasites, usual in such 

 examples ; and had evidently been blind before capture in a net. 

 Some blowing-up of wreckage in the sea near by had taken place, 

 and it is just probable that an explosion may have injured it. 



Megrim {Arnoglossus laterna), a 6 in. example brought me 

 on March 28th. 



May 20th. When passing a fish-shop on this date, my 

 attention was arrested by two very fresh ** sides " of a Skate 



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