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common in all the ditches or dykes of the Pembroke 

 marshes. It resembles the Anguilla vulgaris of Europe, 

 .sometimes attains two or three pounds in weight, and is 

 veiy destructive to young ducklings. The 'Mudians are 

 prejudiced against this fish, and will not eat it. 



Banded Pipe Pish {Syngnathus fasciatus, De Kay)'. 

 Length six inches. One specimen only obtained by me. 



PoEcupiNE Fish, or Sea Hedgehog {Tetraodon ?). 



Very common. 



Sea Hoese (Hippocampus hremrostris). Not uncommon. 



Oct. 31, 1851. A fisherman drawing his nets for turtle 

 in the harbour of Hamilton captured a curious fish, which 

 he requested me to look at. I found it attached to a small 

 line, swimming about the fisherman's boat. "When taken 

 out of the water it uttered a grunting noise ; length, twelve 

 inches ; extent, fifteen. Colour of the upper parts, greenish- 

 brown; membrane of the wings black, spotted with blue 

 towards the extremity. Two long powerful spines were 

 recumbent on the back part of the head, and numerous 

 Small spines presented themselves on the posterior part of 

 the body towards the tail. Could find no description of 

 this fish in any work at the public library, except a brief 

 account in Adam's Encyclopedia, from which I am inclined 

 to think our specimen to be the common Dactylopterus, or 

 Flying Gurnard of the Mediterranean {Trigla volitans of 

 LinncBus), which is described as common in that sea, though 



