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SOME FISH-NOTES FROM GEE AT YARMOUTH AND 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR 1912. 



By Arthur H. Patterson. 



(Associate of the Marine Biological Association of Great Britain.) 



The year 1912 has not provided me with any surprises in the 

 shape of unrecorded species in my own neighbourhood, or ex- 

 ceptional captures, although a few erratic occurrences are worthy 

 of note. Owing to the disagreeable weather characterizing what 

 should have been the busiest period of the local shrimpers' 

 season, I received very few " curios " from these inshore fisher- 

 folk, who, on the whole, made fairly remunerative catches, 

 the "Pink Shrimp" (JEsop's Prawn) having swarmed in the 

 roadstead. 



Since the publication of my "List of Suffolk Fishes " (cf. 

 ' Zoologist,' 1909),* there has appeared a section on the "Fishes " 

 in the 'Victorian History of Suffolk," compiled by Mr. J. T. 

 Cunningham, M.A. To the value of that section I would like to 

 bear testimony. Entirely void of technicalities, it is most 

 excellently arranged ; and it is curious to note that, written 

 contemporaneously with my own — I have not the slightest 

 doubt that we wrote unknown to each other — the lists should so 

 strikingly correspond. Since my own list was published, the 

 Jago's Gold-sinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris) (1910), the Black Sea- 

 bream {Cantharus Uneatus), and the Hag-fish (Myxine glutinosa) 

 have been recorded for the Suffolk seaboard ; whilst Mr. 

 Cunningham's records of the Solenette (Solea lutea), Cuckoo 

 Wrasse {Labrus mixtus), and the Smooth-hound (Mustelus vulgaris) 

 must be added to my own list. For some of the species placed in 

 the Victorian list, to which the editor attaches a slight doubt, 

 verification of their occurrence will be seen in my catalogue of 

 1909, e.g. the Bubalis, Liparis, Butterfish, Carps, &c. 



My first fish of the year was a small Ballan Wrasse, which 

 reached me from Lowestoft on January oth. 



On January 6th the 'Angler's News ' recorded the capture of 

 * Pp. 361, 414 and 447. 



