FOUND IN NORFOLK. 4I 



Acus prima species remarkable for its quadrangular 

 figure and verdigreece green back bone. 



* A lesser sort of Acus [wee crossed out] maior or 

 primse specaeei wee meet with [answering the saurus of 

 Rondeletius crossed out] much shorter then the comon 

 garfish & in taking out the spine wee found it not green 

 as in the greater & much answering the saurus of 

 Rondeletius. 



A scolopax"' or sea woodcock of Rondeletius was 

 giuen mee by a seaman of these seas, about 3 inches 

 long & seemes to bee one kind of Acus or needlefish 

 answering the discription of Rondeletius. 



The Acus of Aristotle [see Note 64] lesser thinner 

 corticated & sexangular by diuers calld an addercock 

 & somewhat resembling a snake ours more plainly finned 

 then Rondeletius discribeth it. 



A little corticated fish^ about [4 inches crossed out] 3 or 

 4 inches long [several words smeared out] ours answering 

 that wch is named piscis octangularis by wormius, 

 cataphractus by Schoneueldeus. octagonius versus 

 caput, versus caudam hexagonius. 



\Fol. 28.] The faber marinus" sometimes found very 

 large answering ye figure of Rondeletius. which though 

 hee mentioneth as a rare fish & to be found in the 

 Atlantick & Gaditane ocean yet wee often meet with 

 it in these seas comonly calld a peterfish hauing [a crossed 



* This and the next paragraph on the back of Fol. 26 are in different 

 ink and smaller writing though in the same hand, and appear to have been 

 added subsequently. The first paragraph is omitted by Wilkin. 



^ The Scolopax, or Sea Woodcock, is clearly Centriscus scolopax, a very 

 rare fish in the British seas, and it would have been well had Browne given 

 a more precise account of the origin of his specimen. 



66 Doubtless the Armed Bull-head, or Pogge, Agonus cataphractus. A 

 MS. note in Berkenhout says it was called at Lowestoft a Beetle-head (1769). 



6' Zeus faber, the Dory. Many, usually, small ones, are brought in by 

 our fishermen. 



