16 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
in Falmouth Harbour and the mouth of Helford River. It has 
also been taken at St. Ives, at Padstow, and near Bude. The 
Greater Pipe-fish (Syngnathus acus, L.) is occasionally taken at 
Gyllyngvase Beach among the seaweed at low spring-tide, is 
moderately common on weed-covered bottoms and on low rocks 
from shallow water. downwards along the south and west, and 
may occasionally be seen slashing along the surface of the water 
as much as three or four miles from land. On the north coast it 
has been taken at St. Ives and at Padstow. Syngnathus rostel- 
latus, Nilsson, has till lately been confused with S. acus. It has 
been obtained at Cawsand Bay (M. B. A.), at Mevagissey, and 
near Coverack, and may be common. The Snake Pipe-fish 
(Nerophis equoreus, L.) is common, at least locally, all round the 
coast from shallow water downwards. It is often found attached 
to Crab- and Lobster-pots, and in August, 1907, several pieces of 
netting submerged in Falmouth Docks for six weeks by the writer 
in connection with some County Council net-tanning experiments 
were taken possession of by hundreds of this fish. They were 
all immature, the largest being nine inches in length, and clung 
tightly to the thread of the net by means of their tails. One 
piece of the netting, about three yards square, slimy with green 
seaweed, carried no fewer than a hundred and twenty-two speci- 
mens when it was pulled on board, and another piece, six feet by 
two, had forty-seven! The Straight-nosed Pipe-fish (Nerophis 
ophidion, L.) is evidently variable in number, but in some years, 
notably 1904, was locally the most plentiful of all the Pipe-fishes 
in the county, and on certain days during the summer literally 
swarmed under stones and tufts of seaweed from half-way 
between tide-marks downwards about Mevagissey, Gorran, and 
the mouth of Helford River. It is at times common in ghal- 
low water, and has been dredged in quantity down to thirty 
and thirty-five fathoms in Falmouth Bay. For the last two 
years (1906 and 1907) it has been very scarce as a littoral species 
at Gyllyngvase and Helford, and apparently, indeed, all along the 
south coast except at St. Michael’s Mount. Specimens are occa- 
sionally taken along the north coast as far as Bude, where, in 
July and August, 1905, it was fairly plentiful. The Worm Pipe- 
fish (Nerophis lumbriciformis, Yarr.) is not uncommon in weed- 
covered rock-pools, and is occasionally plentiful under stones at 
