MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES AND OBSERVATIONS. 511 



Sedgefield, Durham Robert Smith, Esq. , M.D. 



Shotley Mr. Coulson, Shotley Hall. 



South Shields Rev. R. E. Hooppell, LL.D., F.R.A.S. 



Stamfordham Rev. J. F. Bigge, M.A. 



T. W. Backhouse, Esq., West Hendon 



Sunderland ... 



( House 



Thorpe Grange, Greta Bridge T. Dodgson, Esq. 



Tynemouth |P. J. Messent, Esq. 



lC. B. Goldston, Esq. 

 w ,,. (Mr. Hedley, Wallington Hall Gardens, 



" (Mr. Arthur Dixon. 

 Wallsend J. W. Dees, Esq. 



„,„ (Rev. R. F. Wlieeler, M.A. 



Whitley J, r _ _ « , „ 



(Mr. C. Roope, Convalescent Home. 



Whittle Dene Company's Reservoirs, D. D. Main, Esq. 



Winlaton Thomas Thompson, Esq. 



Wolsingham (St. John's) C. J. Backhouse, Esq. 



Wolsingham Amos Mitchell, Esq. 



Wylam G. C. Atkinson, Esq., Wylam Hall. 



XXI. — Miscellaneous Notices and Observations. 



Ray's Bream. — A specimen of this rather scarce fish was sent 

 to me in the autumn of 1870, by a Sunderland fishmonger. It 

 had been taken in a dying condition, in a pool on the beach 

 not far from Seaham Harbour. Couch, in his work on British 

 Fishes, states that this is the way in which it has mostly been 

 caught. Its natural habitat is probably in deep water. — George 

 S. Brady, Sunderland, May, 1872. 



Notes on Crabs. — During the lowest spring-tides in September 

 of last year, I found, in the pools on the beach near low-water 

 mark, at Seaton Carew, several living specimens of the beautiful 

 Portumnus variegatus. Though Mr. Hodge had, some years ago, 

 observed the exuviae of the same crab in considerable numbers 

 on the Castle Eden beach, it has not heretofore, I believe, been 

 taken alive in our district. In the same pools, at Seaton Carew, 

 Portunus holsatus occurs plentifully ; and I have likewise taken 

 a few specimens in similar situations at Sunderland. Mr. T. W. 



