CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORT FOR N. DEVON. 105 
This was the case some few years ago, when Caranxz was picked 
up commonly on the beach, where they had precipitated them- 
selves. 
Parnell’s Goby (Gobius parnelli) is to be taken in the River 
Taw ; the Spotted Goby (G. minutus) is, however, quite the com- 
monest species on the sandy shores at Santon and Woolacombe. 
Mr. W. H. Rogers wrote me on Nov. 4th: While fishing in 
the Taw, at Southmolton Road, for Dace, he caught two Roach 
(Leuciscus rutilus), one weighing 16 o0z. and the other 18 0z. The 
Roach is an exceptionally rare fish in the Taw. I have taken it 
commonly in the Exeter Canal, and it is to be found at Slapton 
Ley, in the River Axe, and in the railway ponds at Exeter. The 
‘Victoria County History of Devon’ states that the Perch 
(Perca fluviatilis) is common in Devon, but, as Mr. Rogers 
can testify, it is unknown in the Taw above Brightley Weir, 
and I have never heard of its being taken below. It is found 
in Venn Pool, but has probably been introduced there. Mr. 
Rogers has taken a few Gudgeon in the station pool at Lapford, 
and fewer still of the Loach. ‘‘ Girt Jan Ridd,’ Blackmore 
tells us, captured a Loach of a quarter of a pound in Lowmans 
Water, Exmoor, but I have not succeeded in discovering whether 
this fish still lives in that river and in the Lyn, as it most 
assuredly did in former times. 
Haddock (Gadus eglefinus) umned up at the beginning of this 
year in quite large numbers. They have not been known, except 
as comparatively rare visitants in Bideford Bay, for forty years 
past. Pollack, Power Cod, and Bib all in round numbers. In 
working the shore and in the rock-pools I have not yet come 
across the Fifteen-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia), 
though I have taken it at Exmouth, in South Devon. 
