42 NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES, ETC., 



out] one [written above] black spot on ether side 

 the body conceued the perpetuall signature from the 

 impression of St Peters fingers or to resemble the 2 

 peeces of money wch St Peter tooke out of this fish 

 remarkable also from its disproportionable mouth & many 

 hard prickles about other parts. 



A kind of scorpius marinus^' a rough prickly & 

 monstrous headed fish 6 8 or I2 inches long answerable 

 vnto the figure of Schoneueldeus. 



A sting fish^ wiuer or kind of ophidion or Araneus 

 slender, narrowe headed about 4 inches long wth a 

 sharpe small prickly finne along the back which often 

 venemously pricketh the hands of fishermen. 



Aphia cobites marina'" or sea Loche. 



Blennus a sea miliars thumb. 



Funduli marini sea gogions. 



Alosae or chads to bee met with about Lynne. 



Spinachus or smelt" in greatest plentie about Lynne 

 butt [comon on yarmouth coast crossed out] where they 

 haue also a small fish calld a primme answering in [all 



^ Coitus scorpius. Father Lasher, commonly taken by the shrimpers. 



^5 Probably from its size the Lesser Weever, Trachinus vipera, 

 as also the Draco minor of Jonstoni. A common fish in our waters. 

 Large numbers of the Greater Weever, T. draco, are brought in by the 

 trawlers. 



'" One of the Gobies. Day, " Brit. Fishes," i., p. 169, supposes the 

 Aphya cobites of Rondeletius (p. 20) to be the White Goby, A. pellucida ; 

 Pennant has A. cobites as a synonym for the Spotted Goby (G. minutus) 

 and the Sea Gudgeons, Black Gobies (G. niger), but at that time there 

 was no very nice distinction of the members of this genus. The Sea 

 Miller's Thumb is probably the Shanny (Blennius pholis). Alosa, is the 

 AUis Shad (Culpea alosa, L.), not uncommon (see Note 74). 



'1 The Smelt, Osmerus eperlanus, is abundant in the shallow waters and 

 estuaries on the Norfolk coast in spring, ascending the fresh-water rivers to 

 spawn. The small fish called a Primme by Browne, may be the Atherine 

 (Atherina presbyter), which is also found in our waters, where it is often 

 mistaken for the Smelt, but I have not heard it called by the former name. 



