FISE-NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH, 



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On April 7th a local shrimper brought me a very beautiful 

 specimen of the Gattorugine (Blennius gattorugine), which he 

 had captured early that day in his net when shrimping near the 

 St. Nicholas' lightship. It measured 5 in. in length, and was 

 only the second I have known to be captured off the Norfolk 

 coast, the first having been brought to me in May, 1899. The 

 present example must have been very beautiful in appearance 

 when freshly taken out of the water, as its colours when brought 

 to me in the evening were still strikingly distinct, red pre- 

 dominating, the dark bars becoming more strongly defined as 

 the other parts faded. The upper illustration in plate cxiii. in 

 Couch's ' Fishes,' vol. ii., is a good one of this species. 



An interesting Sole came to me from Lowestoft on May 3rd ; 

 its upper surface was milk-white, with the exception of a small 

 shilling-sized spot of the normal colour over one eye, and 

 surrounding it. Length 15 in. 



The finding of several dead Mackerel last autumn upon the 

 tide-mark (cf. ' Zoologist,' 1912, p. 32) of exceeding full rotundity 

 as compared with others of lesser girth of the same length led 

 me to examine others washed up this year. I see nothing 

 sufficiently suggestive as to their being of different races, but 

 rather an individual tendency to obesity. I measured an example 

 on October 17th, 1912, at 15 in. in length with a girth of 8 in. 

 I made the following measurements at various dates : — 



Example 14 in. long, 6i in. round. May 31st. 



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" I June 12th. 

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,, y June 13th. 



,, [ June 17th. 



Oct. 17th. 



I offered a somewhat tempting price to a number of fisher- 

 folk for the first or every Mackerel they might bring me showing 

 spots or rings upon the abdomen. There came to me in June 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. XVII., January, 1913. c 



14 „ , 



. 6* „ 



13* „ , 



, 6± „ 



13 „ , 



, 6 „ 



13 „ , 



, 6 „ 



12 „ , 



, 5* „ 



18* „ , 



, 6 „ 



18* „ , 



, 6± „ 



13£ „ , 



, 6* „ 



14 „ , 



, 6 „ 



14 „ , 



, 6* „ 



13* „ , 



, 7 „ 



15 „ , 



, 8 „ 



