﻿THE 
  ZOOLOGIST 
  

  

  No. 
  762.— 
  December, 
  1904. 
  

  

  SOME 
  FISH-NOTES 
  FROM 
  GREAT 
  YARMOUTH 
  

   FOR 
  1904. 
  

  

  By 
  A. 
  H. 
  Patterson, 
  A.M.B.A. 
  

   (Plate 
  V.) 
  

  

  The 
  } 
  r 
  ear 
  1904, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  occurrences 
  of 
  rare 
  and 
  interesting 
  

   fishes 
  are 
  concerned, 
  has, 
  to 
  me, 
  been 
  a 
  most 
  disappointing 
  one. 
  

   This 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  year 
  for 
  some 
  considerable 
  period 
  wherein 
  I 
  have 
  

   been 
  unable 
  to 
  record 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  new 
  species 
  for 
  the 
  county 
  of 
  

   Norfolk. 
  I 
  have 
  every 
  reason 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  my 
  shrimper 
  

   friends 
  and 
  others 
  have 
  been 
  equally 
  alert 
  for 
  strange 
  marine 
  

   products 
  with 
  which 
  to 
  delight 
  me, 
  but 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  decided 
  

   paucity 
  of 
  fishes 
  other 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  common 
  and 
  everyday 
  

   occurrence 
  ; 
  and 
  during 
  the 
  present 
  Herring 
  fishery 
  the 
  same 
  

   conditions 
  have 
  obtained. 
  

  

  In 
  looking 
  through 
  my 
  " 
  note-book" 
  for 
  the 
  past 
  year, 
  I 
  have 
  

   also 
  to 
  regret 
  a 
  want 
  of 
  the 
  usual 
  interesting 
  items 
  referring 
  to 
  

   strange 
  Crustaceans, 
  and 
  even 
  Birds 
  ; 
  and 
  as 
  for 
  Cetaceans, 
  my 
  

   records 
  are 
  practically 
  nil. 
  The 
  incursion 
  of 
  so 
  many 
  snorting 
  

   and 
  restless 
  steam-luggers 
  into 
  the 
  haunts 
  of 
  these 
  equally 
  queer 
  

   sea-monsters 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  scaring 
  them 
  

   off 
  the 
  fishing 
  grounds. 
  Only 
  two 
  Porpoises, 
  to 
  my 
  knowledge, 
  

   have 
  so 
  far 
  been 
  landed. 
  

  

  My 
  first 
  "fish-note" 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  refers 
  to 
  a 
  Sole 
  (Solea 
  

   vulgaris), 
  11£ 
  in. 
  in 
  length, 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  which 
  only 
  was 
  of 
  the 
  

   Zool. 
  4th 
  ser. 
  vol. 
  VIII., 
  December, 
  1904. 
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