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EDITOEIAL GLEANINGS. 



Heavy Fresh-water Fish taken in 1904. — A 16 lb. Trout was captured 

 in the Test at Borusey, Hampshire, one of 16 lb. was landed on Lough 

 Mask, the Itchen yielded a Trout of 11 lb. 6 oz., the Colne (Bickmans- 

 worth) one of 8 lb. 1 oz., a big Eainbow of 9 lb. 1 oz. was taken on a 

 fly in a private lake near Bath, and an 8 lb. 5 oz. Trout was secured in 

 the Thames at Shepperton. A magnificent specimen of the Great 

 Lake Trout (12 lb.) was also caught in Loch Bannoch, Scotland, in 

 July. An English river — the Hampshire Avon — has furnished one of 

 the heaviest Salmon — a 45-pounder. A 33 lb. Pike has been recorded 

 from Lough Conn, and one of 261b. from the Sussex Arun. A 17^ lb. 

 Carp has been captured in the Home Park, Hampton Court, a 13J lb. 

 Carp in the Brue (Somersetshire), Chub of 7 lb. 5 oz. and 7 lb. 14 oz. 

 (killed by an Otter) in the Avon at Christchurch, two Perch of 4£ lb. 

 and 4 lb. (entrusted to Messrs. Eaton and Deller for preservation), and 

 a Dace of 1 lb. 2 oz. in the Herts Beane. A Boach of 3 lb. was reported 

 taken in the Medway (Kent) ; one of 3 lb. 4 oz. was found in a dying 

 condition in the Marlow district of the Thames ; and while a reservoir 

 near Bristol was being cleaned out what is known as the " Becord 

 Boach " was met with. It scaled 3 lb. 10| oz. — Angler's News, Jan. 1th. 



Marine Zoology in the East Fading, 1904. — The following have been 

 taken on the Holderness coast during 1904. In the fishing-cobles at 

 Hornsea, May 28th — Crustacea : Hoplonyx cicada (Fabr.) ; Callisoma 

 hojyei, A. Costa ; Idotea marina (Linn.) ; 1. linearis (Penn.); Jcera albi- 

 frons, Leach ; Hippolyte varians (Leach). In Crab-pots, Hornsea, 

 Aug. 8th : Polynoe imbricata, Linn. ; Pedicillina cernua (Pall.), on 

 Whelk-shells, and Phoxichilus spinosus (Mont.) ; with the Mollusca, 

 Lacuna crassior (Mont.), common; L. pallidula (da Costa); Cingula 

 semistriata (Mont.), abundant. Modiolaria discors (Linn.) was washed 

 up alive at Kilnsea (seaside) on Aug. 6th ; several specimens of Syndo- 

 smya alba (Wood) were found alive on the tide-mark at Aldborough 

 during the same month, and dead specimens of S. tenuis (Mont.) were 

 taken on the river-side at Kilnsea. Eurydice pulchra, Leach, from 

 Well Creek, is an addition to the Humber Crustacea ; and Haustorius 

 arenarius (Slabber), the sand-furrow maker, from Aldborough, adds 

 another species to the East Riding list. The common estuarine 

 Schizopod, Neomysis vulgaris (Thompson), was abundant during August 

 in the ditch which forms the western boundary of Westlands, Hedon. 

 T. Petch (Trans. Hull Scient. and Field Nat. Club, 1904). 



