THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 774.— December. 1905. 



SOME FISH-NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH 

 FOR 1905. 



By A. H. Patterson. 



The fish entries in my 1905 " note-book " are not of that 

 varied and interesting a character which I could have wished ; I 

 have this year to regret more a scarcity of curious or strange 

 fish taken by our local shrimpers than a want of interest on their 

 part. Those queer examples which have been obtained came to 

 hand more for the sake of the inducements held out than from 

 motives of curiosity. 



In March-end four examples of the Ballan Wrasse (Labrus 

 maculatus) , of the green variety, were taken off Yarmouth, each 

 about the size of one's hand ; and a most beautiful specimen, 

 11 in. in length, of a decided venetian-red colour, was procured 

 for me by Mr. Robert Beazor, a Yarmouth fish-salesman, from a 

 " wolder " fishing out of this port. 



On April 25th I happened to be passing an obscure little fish- 

 shop, when I observed a pile of fish just shot out of a "trunk." 

 Amongst them I counted nearly a score of Streaked Gurnards 

 (Trigla lineata), quite a number of Sea-Bream (Pagellus centro- 

 clontus), and some vividly coloured Red Gurnards (Trigla cuculus). 

 There was also a small Cuckoo Ray (Raia miraletus) . These 

 fish had been caught by a Newlyn boat, had been despatched to 

 Lowestoft, and sold to a Yarmouth fish-dealer — in so roundabout 

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