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push forward, sweeping round the precipices and across the 

 gullies, appearing not unlike a frightened flock of sheep as 

 they skim in a white stream along the sloping green banks. 

 Occasionally the remains of grains (husks of oats) may be 

 detected on the cliffs to which they make their resort. I 

 derived this benefit from their proximity, that they cleared a 

 field of turnips of the caterpillars of the diamond moth, 

 with which it was much infested. 



Tusk, (Brosmus vulgaris). — Mr Wilson states that a 

 young example has occurred off Coldingham. Dr Johnston 

 records it from Berwick Bay. (" Hist. Ber. Nat. Club," I., 

 p. 214. 



Food of the Salmon kind. — " On Monday, June 24th, 

 seven herring fry were taken by Mr Landells from the 

 stomach of a grilse 5 lb. weight ; a circumstance unprece- 

 dented in his experience." .(" Ber. Adv.," June 28th, 1872.) 

 In the same newspaper, May 5th, 1871, it is stated that on 

 the 3rd, a gentleman from Berwick, fishing in the White- 

 adder, caught, near to Edrom House, a very large yellow 

 trout. "It measured 24 inches long, and 11^ inches in 

 girth ; and on being cut up, it was found he had recently 

 swallowed one of the same species, the skeleton of which was 

 upwards of seven inches long — weight 4 lbs." 



Weight of Tweed Salmon in 1872. — One of 46 lbs., 

 one of 36 lbs., one of 34 lbs., one of 31 lbs., one of 30 lbs., 

 five of 29 lbs., four of 28 lbs., four of 27 lbs., six of 26 lbs., 

 and seven of 25 lbs. Most of these were taken with the rod. 

 (" Land and Water," December, 1872.) 



Sturgeon.— On August 3rd, 1872, a large Sturgeon was 

 captured in the Tweed, at Yarrow fishery. It was 8| feet 

 in length, 4 feet 4 inches in girth, and weighed 15J stones. 

 (" Scotsman," August 10th, 1872.) 



Food of the Eel. — A miller who lives near the Whit- 

 adder informs me that eels are piscivorous as well as carni- 

 vorous. His people when they procure fresh haddocks or 

 herrings cleanse them in the mill-lead, which is built with 

 open stone walls ; and at those times he sees the eels proceed 

 their full length out of the holes of the wall in which they 

 harbour, to feast on the garbage. He also noticed that when 

 a dead animal had been partially buried in a meadow, 

 numerous slimy tracks communicated between the water and 

 the carcase, which he attributed to eels which had left the 



