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X. — Catalogue of the Fishes of the Rivers and Coast of Northum- 

 berland and Durham and the adjacent Sea. By Richard Howse. 



Hitherto, no systematic List or Catalogue of the Fishes found 

 on the Coast and in the Rivers of Northumberland and Durham 

 has been published. In 1769, a List of the Fishes of Northum- 

 berland and those parts of Durham lying north of the Tyne was 

 included by "Wallis in his Natural History and Antiquities of 

 Northumberland. Forty-six species, chiefly of the commoner 

 kinds, are enumerated, including all that were likely to be 

 noticed by ordinary observers, if we except the Bass, which is a 

 rare Northumbrian fish, and the Pogge. The next lists pub- 

 lished for our district are those included in Sir Cuthbert Sharpe's 

 History of Hartlepool, 1816, and John Hogg's Natural History 

 of Stockton-on-Tees appended to Brewster's History of Stockton, 

 1827. In these lists a few of the rarer kinds are mentioned 

 which are specially referred to in this Catalogue. Dr. George 

 Johnston gave a list of the Fishes of Berwickshire in the His- 

 tory of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club in 1838. Eighty- 

 eight species are recorded in it, including some of the rarer 

 stragglers to the East Coast. About the same time a very 

 elaborate Essay on the Fishes of the Frith of Forth, by Dr. 

 Rd. Parnell, was published by the Wernerian Natural History 

 Society of Edinburgh. This important list enumerates one hun- 

 dred and twenty -five species from the Forth district, about forty 

 of which were added to the Forth fauna by Dr. Parnell, and six 

 of these had not been previously known as British. Being so 

 near to our own coast and sea this list affords a very reliable 

 guide to the Fishes of our own district. x In 1 844, a list of the 

 Fishes of the Yorkshire Coast was prepared by Mr. T. Meynell, 



i Wallis's Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland (Fishes, Vol. I., pp. 



376—392). 1769. 

 Sir Cuthbert Sharpe's History of Hartlepool (Fishes). 1SI6. 

 Brewster's History of Stockton-on-Tees (Fishes). 1827. 

 R. Parnell's The Natural History of the Fishes of the Frith of Forth. 1838. 

 Dr. Geo. Johnston — Fishes of Berwickshire, in the History of the Berwickshire 



Naturalists' Club, Vol. I. 1838. 



