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tion is assisted by a compensating arrangement in 
the stomach, which need not be particularised in this 
place. The importance of this fact to the angler 
however, is that baits for these mullet must be soft. 
Some anglers bait with macaroni. Further, the 
grey mullet is a very timid fish, taking alarm on 
the least disturbance. It also cnters fresh-water, 
the Sussex Arun being one of its favourite south- 
coast rivers, the Kentish Stour another. 
Cooked with the trail, the “woodcock of the 
sea” has, I suppose I may say without fear wunet, 
of contradiction, no rival among table fish, Red 
Nor has it anything in common with the last fish 
from which it is systematically separated by many 
families. It is a familiar enough fish in the shops, 
with its bright red colour, largely due to the trick 
of scaling it immediately on its removal from the 
water, and the two sensitive barbules beneath the 
lower jaw. There are two races, a large and a 
small, of this fish, both of which are taken for the 
market in a fixed,net known asatrammel. Buta 
few instances, perhaps a dozen in all, are on record 
of the capture of this fish with hook and line, but 
this would appear to be less rare than is commonly 
supposed. The last instance that came to my 
notice was at Bournemouth on July 22nd of the 
present year, when a large red mullet was caught 
on a line (mussel bait) on the “outfall” (see Bourne- 
mouth, Appendix). Mr. Wilcocks writes to me that, 
though he has only personally caught one, Mr. 
Maple of Shoreham took on one occasion no fewer 
than five; onlugworm. Mr. Maple himself tells me 
that the red mullet have of late been very scarce in 
the neighbourhood of Shoreham, but that, when 
