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Mr. Spring-Rice tells me that one of these fish flew on 

 board the ferry boat a few days ago, as he was crossing in 

 her from the town. He consigned it to its native element. 



May nth, 1848.— The master of the schooner " Adeona," 

 just arrived from Turk's Island, presented me with a living 

 specimen of the Marbled Angler, an extraordinary-looking 

 little fish, which he captured at sea, amongst the floating 

 gulf weed. It died an hour after I received it, and was 

 preserved in spirits. Length, two and six tenths inches. 



June 22nd, 1848. — James Stow, our boatman, brought 

 me a live specimen of a curious little fish taken in a fish- 

 pot in Hamilton Harbour. It appeared very like (if not 

 identical with) the specimen presented to me on the 1 ith 

 of May last. 



January ^\st, 1849. — Saw a small fishing-boat at the 

 wharf to-day, from Castle Harbour, with a number of large 

 fish for sale entirely new to me. They averaged from ten 

 to thirteen pounds each, were something like a Mullet, with 

 a longer and sharper head ; colour, light brown above and 

 white below ; the eye protected with an outer coating of 

 thick gelatinous matter. The fisherman called them 

 " Rooters," and assured me they were very rarely met with 

 in Bermuda. In this instance he had enclosed upwards of 

 five hundred in his net, which was broken to pieces in their 

 rush to escape, and only a fourth of that number captured. 

 A ship master who was present described the fish as 

 common at Jamaica, where it was known as the " Bone 

 Fish," or Grubber. 



