14 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
fishermen often go into the water up to their waists and hold 
the edge of the net overhead to hinder their escape. Hlsewhere 
along the south and about St. Ives the schools are relatively 
small. The largest specimen handled by the writer weighed 
twelve pounds fourteen ounces, and was taken at Coverack. 
Great schools of young Grey Mullet an inch or less in length are 
occasionally seen in Falmouth Harbour from the middle of July 
to the middle of August. On the 14th of July, 1906, there was 
a great swarm on Gyllyngvase beach, where the long stretch of 
sand abuts against the low weed-covered rocky ground opposite 
Swanpool. Last year (1907) they were plentiful in Fowey 
Harbour during the third week in August, and at Mevagissey 
a few days later. The Thin-lipped Grey Mullet (Mugil capito, 
Cuv.) is not distinguished by the fishermen from the preceding 
species, but Day implies it was common along the south. In 
December, 1906, two were sent in from Sennen, and in February 
of the present year (1907) a school appeared in Falmouth Bay 
and Harbour, but these seem to be the only recent records. The 
Sand Smelt or Atherine (Atherina presbyter, Jenyns) isa common 
visitor in large shoals in autumn, and colonies remain here and 
there in shallow water along the south coast, as at Mevagissey, 
St. Mawes, Coverack and Porthleven, throughout the winter. In 
January, 1907, several were picked up dead on the sand at the 
Bothwick Rocks, Newquay. The Larger Launce (Ammodytes 
lanceolatus, Lesauvage) is locally common on sandy bottoms in 
shallow water along the south coast, and on the north especially 
at St. Ives, where this and the next species are often taken in 
large numbers in a drag-seine shot with that intention. Vallen- 
tin has seen the Gannets there so gorged with this fish as to be 
unable to fly. In other localities it is generally dragged out of 
the sand by sickle-shaped hooks specially made for the purpose. 
The Lesser Launce (Ammodytes tobianus, L.) is very common on 
sandy shores all round the coast. The Pike (Hsox lucius, L.) 
was introduced by the Rev. John Daubuz into one of his ponds 
at Killiow, near Truro, but it died out or was exterminated many 
years ago (J. D. Enys). The Garfish or Gerrick (Belone vulgaris, 
Flem.) occasionally appears in shoals in March, as off the Wolf 
Rock in 1900, and about seventy miles N.N.W. of the Longships 
in 1907 ; and sometimes in autumn, as, for example, eight miles 
