SOME FISH-NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH. 



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" lightning " sketch on a leaf of my pocket-book, wherein the Sun- 

 fish's huge dorsal and anal fins were placed astern of it, and the 

 odd little ''button-hole" of a mouth depicted at the other end. 

 My drawing and extempore " lecture " left them all knowing 

 something of the beast, and good-humouredly satisfied. By such 

 means has one to arouse a bit of interest in the hope of future 

 favours. 



Early in November a purely white Thornback Ray was landed 

 at Lowestoft in a trunk with other " offal." I did not manage 



"Bull-dog" Codling. 



to secure it, as it was purchased by a fish-dealer and despatched 

 inland. Two or three of my fisher-friends saw it, but were too 

 late to secure it. 



On Nov. 24th a codling belonging to that queer variety 

 known as "Bull-dog" fish — so named from the deformity of its 

 head — was caught on a line off the Britannia Pier by Mr. E. 

 Boning, of this town. I have rarely met with similar mal- 

 formations in the Cod, Haddock, and once in the Sapphirine 



Gurnard.* 



* Of. ' Zoologist,' 1897, pp. 275-6 ^figure). 



