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wing near it, and looked about the same size. — J. Whitaker (Rain- 

 worth, Notts). 



PISCES. 



Anchovy at Yarmouth. — A very fine example of the Anchovy 

 (Engraulis encrasicholus) was taken in a drift-net amongst Herrings, and 

 brought in on Oct. 2nd ; length, 7J in. Dr. Day says it rarely exceeds 

 6£ in. Another about the same length was brought to me salted on the 31st. 

 Although the numbers of Herrings taken off Yarmouth this season have 

 beaten the record, fewer stranger fishes, e. g. Shads, Pilchards, and even 

 Sharks, have been caught or seen than in other years ; and a similar 

 remark applies to the Cetacea. — A. Patterson (Ibis House, Great 

 Yarmouth). 



Food of the Eel. — An excellent observer, Richard Holme, of Rusland, 

 informs me that he has seen an Eel swallow a fresh-water Lamprey, tail 

 first. He has also more than once watched an Eel attempting to catch 

 small Trout (or other young Salmonidce) by snatching at them as they 

 passed by. Once he saw an Eel actually catch one. These notes refer to 

 the stream known as the Rusland Pool. — Charles F. Archibald (Rusland 

 Hall, Ulverston). 



[According to Capt. Williamson, an old well-known angling author, 

 " Eels swallow fishes head-foremost." — Ed.] 



