8 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



East Dereham, for identification. A letter accompanying it 

 stated that, in a pond in which only Tench were known to exist, 

 most unexpectedly scores of small fishes on a warm, sunny day 

 came to the surface, some as large as a Herring among them. 

 They would not take a bait, but one was captured in a bow-net 

 and forwarded to me. The fish was a Prussian Carp {Carassius 

 gihelio) 5 in. long. It was identical with those found for many 

 years past in a roadside pond at Lound, a half-dozen miles from 

 Yarmouth, but not of quite so golden a hue. Dr. Day, with his 

 usual eagerness for discarding species, describes this fish as a 

 variety of the Crucian Carp. As I had suspected, my friend 

 informed me that the Wendling pond was " very thick " and 

 weeded at times, and used by horses and cattle. Knowing the 

 conditions at Lound, my friend's remark that "these Germans 

 take a lot of killing " was very much to the point." 



Pilot Fish. — A very fine ll|-in. example of the Pilot Fish 

 {Naucrates ductor) sent me on July 17th from Milford Haven for 

 identification. It had been captured forty miles west of St. 

 Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire, and had aroused much curosity 

 among the fishing population. The fish was very Mackerel-like 

 in shape : the ground-colour was a greenish-blue, with fine 

 bluish-black bands, each ^ in. wide, encircling the body, which 

 gave it, at a first glance, a curious appearance of having 

 been regularly tied with black tape. The fish had been taken 

 amongst a school of Scads. I sent it to Mr. Koberts, of Norwich, 

 for preservation for our local Tolhouse Museum. 



Peech [Percafluviatilis). — A number of fishing-boats (steam- 

 drifters) were sent up the rivers after the 1914 fishing to be out 

 of the way of the harbour traffic. Some went up the Yare from 

 Yarmouth, and a number of Lowestoft boats went through into 

 Oulton Broad ; a few were moored at St. Olaves, opposite the 

 cutting wherein lay my summer house-boat. The bottoms 

 became weeded, attracting numbers of Shrimps and young 

 fishes — Eoach, Smelts, etc. — which no doubt found small 

 crustaceans there among. To these also came numbers of 

 Perch. At Oulton an angler, drawing to the side of an Oulton 

 vessel, threw in his line while holding his umbrella, and to his 

 surprise the float disappeared the moment it reached the weeds. 

 He repeated the throw, and in the end had made a respectable 



