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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Society of a Trout that was caught on Jan. 11th, 1892, in a little stream ten 

 feet wide branching from the Avon, at the back of Castle Street, Salisbury. 

 On being taken out of the water its weight was found to be 25 lbs. Mrs. 

 Powell, at the bottom of whose garden the fish was first discovered, placed 

 it in a pond, where it was fed and lived four months, but had decreased in 

 weight at the time of its death to 2 1 \ lbs. In the neighbourhood of Downton, 

 on Wiltshire Avon, a Trout was caught with the fly by a Mr. Bailey which 

 weighed 14 lbs. ; and in a small tributary of the Trent, at Drayton Manor, 

 a fish was taken exceeding in weight 21 lbs. [vide ' Zoologist,' 1818)." In 

 the 'Angler's Journal' of Dec. 20th, 1884, the editor remarks; — "The 

 largest English Trout on record is believed to be that from Drayton Park, 

 which weighed 22^ lbs., the skeleton of which was presented to the College 

 of Surgeons" — this fish probably being the same as that last referred to. 



Importation of Salmon into London. — The following statistics, fur- 

 nished by Messrs. William Forbes Stuart & Co., the well-known Salmon 

 factors, show the enormous amount of Salmon received in the metropolis 

 during a single week of last month, and, for the purpose of comparison, the 

 figures are given for the corresponding week of last year: — 



1895. 





Boxes. 



Monday, July 22 . 



. . 648 



Tuesday, ,, 



23 . 



. . 309 



Wednesday, ,, 



24 . 



437 



Thursday, ,, 



25 . 



. . 567 



Friday, ,, 



26 . 



604 



Saturday, ,, 



27 . 



. . 342 

 2907 



Scotch 





. . 2034 



Irish . . . 





. . 617 



English . . . 





. . 165 



Berwick . 





90 



Norway — 



Sweden . . . 









Dutch . . . 





. . 1 



2907 



1896. 



Boxes. 



Monday, July 20 . . 



404 



Tuesday, „ 21 . . 



284 



Wednesday, ,, 22 . . 



412 



Thursday, ., 23 . . 



352 



Friday, „ 24 . . 



397 



Saturday, ,, 25 . . 



410 



2259 



Scotch 1568 



Irish 553 



English 

 Berwick 

 Norway 

 Sweden 

 Dutch 



71 



67 



2259 



From this table it will be seen that during the week ending July 27th 

 there was an increase of 618 in the number of boxes received. 



INSECTS. 



Curious Variety of the " Red Admiral."— A rather curious specimen 

 of the "Red Admiral" butterfly {Vanessa atalanta) was shown to me by 

 a friend, who had the specimen in his collection. If I remember rightly, 

 it was caught not long ago in the New Forest. The red markings on the 

 wings, instead of being of the normal colour, were pale buff. Never having 

 seen such a variety before, I thought it might be worth recording. — C. B. 

 Horsbrugh (4, Richmond Hill, Bath). 



