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Note on He capture of Timnies and of a fine specimen of the 

 " Bergylt,''^ or Nonvegian Haddock, off the Tyne, June, 1884. — A 

 small shoal of Tunny {Thjnnus thynnu&) was caught off the Tyne 

 a day or two ago. Three specimens, each about three feet long, 

 were exhibited in Brown's, the fishmonger's, shop. The same 

 day a specimen was seen, at the same place, and which had also 

 been caught a few miles off the mouth of the Tyne, of the 

 Bergylt, Perca marina, Lin., Seiastes Norvegicus, Yarrell and 

 Gunther, Scorpcena Norvegica, Jenyns. It was of a bright scarlet 

 colour all over; head and eyes very large, the latter projecting 

 fi'om the orbits, which measured one inch and five-eighths at the 

 widest part, which was nearly vertical. Length of body, twenty- 

 two inches and a half ; greatest depth across the attached part of 

 the pectorals, five inches and a quarter. Five strong short 

 spiaes project backwards from anterior operculum. The man- 

 dible extended in front half an inch beyond the maxilla ; on the 

 under side of symphysis of mandible was a short, hard, bony 

 process, pointing forwards and downwards. Fin rays : dorsal, 

 fifteen spiny, fifteen soft; pectoral, seventeen spiny, eighteen 

 soft; ventrals, one spiny, five soft; anal, thi^ee spiny, eight 

 soft; caudal, fifteen. These numbers differ only slightly from 

 those of Couch.*— 7). Emlleton, M.D. 



Note on the visit of a Shoal of Tunny to the Northimiberland 

 Coast in June, 1884.^— On the 17th June, last year, Mr. Hemy 

 Clarke wrote to me about a fish unknown to the fishermen that 

 had been caught during the night, m the Salmon nets, two miles 

 off the Tyne. He sent me also a pen and ink sketch of the fish, 

 by means of which it was easy to make out that it was a small 

 specimen of the Common Tunny, a novel visitor apparently to 

 the East coast of this island. -Afterwards Mr. Clarke kindly as- 

 certained that about thirty had been caught ; five of which were 

 landed at Shields, five at Cullercoats, and twenty were thrown 

 overboard, as they were considered by the fishermen worthless. 

 The specimens seen by Mr. Clarke were about three feet two 



* This specimen was obtained by Dr. Embleton and after being preserved was kindly 

 presented to the Nat. Hist. Soc, Mviseiim, — Ed, 



