22 THE ZOOLOGIST, 
October, Cunningham carried out a systematic series of experi- 
ments with French small-meshed nets and the French method 
of fishing in Mount’s Bay, Falmouth Bay, Mevagissey, and 
Looe, to ascertain if it would be possible to establish a Sardine 
industry in the county. Though the small fish were occasionally 
found in abundance, their occurrence was much too irregular to 
justify the outlay on a factory. 
The Allis Shad (Clupea alosa, L.) is commonly called the 
Damon Herring in Cornwall. It is often taken in an emaciated 
condition in the Mackerel-nets in May and June out at sea on 
the south and west of the county, but shoals are scarce and 
usually small, except inshore near the estuaries and river- 
mouths. In the spring of 1900 about three hundred and fifty 
were obtained in a Mackerel-seine at Looe, and in 1903 it was 
taken plentifully by the writer on the east side of the Manacles 
when whiffing for Pollack. Day says it is rare in Mount’s Bay 
and St. Ives, but during the last eight years it has been of 
frequent occurrence in the west. It is often obtained singly in 
the Bristol Channel. In May, 1907, a small shoal appeared in 
Padstow Bay, and a little later several were captured in the 
Camel at Egloshayle. The Twait Shad (Clupea jinta, Cuv.) is 
not so common as the Allis Shad, but a few are taken in the 
Mackerel drift-nets in May and June every year from off the 
Dodman round to St. Ives. In 1902 it was plentiful for a few 
days in the first half of May some miles south of the Wolf. 
Specimens are occasionally obtained in Pilchard-nets in August, 
and rarely in September. 
A single specimen of Paralepis coregonoides, Risso, was driven 
on the beach alive by Porpoises at Polkerris, near Par, on June 
2nd, 1869, and picked up by Matthias Dunn, who sent it to 
Couch, and he in turn presented it to the British Museum. 
The Kel (Anguilla vulgaris, Turton) is fairly common but not 
abundant in the harbours and locally close to the shore along 
the south, and young ones are often plentiful in many of the 
streams during the early summer. It isalso frequently reported 
from the north. The Conger (Conger vulgaris, Cuy.) is plentiful, 
and in places abundant, all round the coast, and occurs from 
low spring tide down to sixty fathoms. It is specially common 
on ‘‘scuddy”’ ground, but among the most favoured localities in 
