542 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Previous to 1876 the immediate waters teemed with many 

 species of fish which now come only at intervals, and in far less 

 numbers. There can be little doubt that prior to that time, when 

 the Herrings were all landed on the beach, the fishes gathered to 

 feast upon the tons of refuse that from time to time was neces- 

 sarily thrown overboard. Now that the Herrings are landed two 

 miles up-river, and even the garbage has a monetary value, there 

 is nothing to attract them hither. The same remark applies to 

 such birds as rare Gulls, Skuas, and Petrels, which are no longer 

 commonly seen with us.* At that time seine-netting (local, 

 "drawing") afforded remunerative employment, boat-loads of 

 Cod, Codlings, Whitings, Gurnards, and others being taken. 

 Drawing is now carried on in a half-hearted, desultory fashion by 

 a few odd boats in the early summer, just prior to the invasion of 

 the visitors, Salmon-trout being the favourite quest. 



The first list of Yarmouth fishes was published by Charles 

 and James (now Sir James) Paget in their ' Sketch of the Natural 

 History of Great Yarmouth ' ; it enumerates eighty-one species, 

 but so accurate has it been found that I have been compelled to 

 eliminate only two species — the Sordid Dragonet, Callionymus 

 dracwiculus, and the Toothed Gilthead, Sparus niger ; the former, 

 as is now well known, being either the immature or the female 

 of Callionymus lyra, known at one time as the Gemmeous 

 Dragonet. Dr. Lowe has since published, in the ' Transactions 

 for 1872-73 of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, a 

 " List of Norfolk Fishes," with a supplemental list, which ap- 

 peared in the ' Transactions' for 1893-94 (pp. 634-42). 



In the year 1887 I resolved to confirm the Pagets' existing 

 list of Yarmouth Fishes, with the result of not only deducting the 

 above-named species, but nearly doubling it in the ten years 

 which have since elapsed, including several new to the county. 

 These will be noted later on. My own published notes are as 

 follow : — 



(1) "List of Yarmouth Fishes," in 4 Fish-Hook andFloat,' 1888. 



(2) ' A List of the Fishes of the Great Yarmouth District,' 

 under nom de plume of u Luberta." 1892. 



(3) "Notes" on rare and interesting species and varieties, in 



* See the author's remarks in Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk,' vol. iii. 

 page 337. 



