556 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



'■ Brill- Turbot." It was thought to be a hybrid. It exhibited a 

 curious blending of the two species. It resembled the Turbot in 

 shape ; the head was a Brill's, as were the markings ; and it was 

 deficient in the spines which distinguish the other side. — Trans. 

 Norf. and Nor. Soc. 1896-97, p. 295.] 



*R. megastoma. Sail Fluke. A. — First recorded for the 

 county, June 18th, 1875 ; Norfolk Estuary. I obtained a five- 

 inch specimen on May 3rd, 1893, which was taken in a 

 shrimper's net on that date. 



\Zeugopterus punctatus. Miiller's Topknot. A. — A fine adult 

 specimen was brought me by a shrimper on June 11th, 1890; 

 length 7 J in. Not before recorded for county. Now in Norwich 

 Museum. A second example, taken in a trawl-net on Smith's 

 Knowle, on March 11th, 1894 ; length, 6 J in. 



Pleuronectes platessa. Plaice. C. — Large specimens appear 

 to be decreasing ; a great many immature are brought in and sold 

 in the early winter. The trawlers mercilessly pursue the spawn- 

 ing fish. Prior to the advent of " carriers " to the fishing fleets, 

 trawlers anchored in the roads ; their fish were " ferried " ashore 

 in huge ferry-boats, run up the beach on " troll-carts," and sent 

 off to London by train. Trolls and ferry-boats are now obsolete. 

 A solitary troll-cart is preserved in Yarmouth Museum. " Peds" 

 (hampers) of huge Plaice were then quite an institution. 

 Examples are occasionally blotched (never wholly grey) upon the 

 under side ; in the patches red spots inevitably correspond with 

 those on the upper side. 



P. limanda. Dab. C. — Occasionally hooked on sandy 

 patches a short way up the river, seldom on a muddy bottom. 

 Frequent from the piers in summer. Small ones are named by 

 the shrimpers as " Cock Soles." Local, " Sand Dab." 



*P. microcephalus. Smeared Dab. C. — Considerable numbers 

 from the trawlers. Not often caught inshore. Very ruddy- 

 tinted examples, like the second figure in Couch's ' Fishes,' vol. 

 iii. p. 188, occur occasionally. Is erroneously named by fishers 

 and others the " Lemon Sole," with no tangible reason whatsoever. 



\Hippoglossoides limandoides. Long Rough Dab. R. R. — I 

 first recognized this as local, from a specimen sixteen inches in 

 length, on a fishmonger's slab, on Jan. 20th, 1891. I am sur- 

 prised at its prior non-identification, as I have found several 

 examples since. 



