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but return to the north in spring. The Mallard and Shoveler are 
resident, and breed in abundance on the meadows around the lake. 
The Golden-eye visit the lake in considerable numbers, but are more 
erratic in their movements, as also are the Smew. I have only seen 
a few pairs of the latter on the lake this season.” Mr. Carr has also 
noticed the White-fronted Goose, Scoter, and Garganey Teal upon the 
water, and states that the Sheld-Duck has once nested by the reser- 
voir; while among spring and autumn visitors he includes the 
Common and Black Terns. I consider that these notes contain in- 
teresting additions to our knowledge of the county avifauna.—F. L. 
Buatuwayt (Lincoln). 
IP IL IS) Gis 
Black Sea-Bream at Yarmouth.—On Jan. 23rd my attention was 
accidentally drawn to a Sea-Bream thrown out with a number of 
common trawl-fish on a fried-fish shop slab. On pulling it out from 
the heap I was gratified to see a species hitherto unknown to me, 
and had no difficulty, on comparing it with the excellent plate in 
Day’s ‘ British Fishes’ (vol. i. p. 26, pl. 9), in deciding its identity as 
the Black Sea-Bream (Cantharus lineatus), or ‘Old Wife” of Couch. 
I had seen two or three Sea-Bream the previous day on another fish- 
slab, but being in a great hurry could not stay to examine them. I 
have since satisfied myself that they were of the same species; they 
were of the same size, somewhere about fourteen inches in length. I 
made further inquiries with a view to finding out where they were 
taken, and my information, which was hardly satisfactory to myself, 
seemed to point to their having been caught by the trawl near 
Cromer Knowle, and as local boats have only just gone out to join 
the western fleet, I have some reason in suggesting that they were 
captured off the Hast Coast. I cannot, however, on such flimsy and 
unsatisfactory evidence include the species on my Norfolk list. The 
“Old Wife” has not yet, I believe, been recognized in local waters. 
The flesh of this species is stated to be soft and poor eating, at its 
best only in August and September; yet, strangely enough, notwith- 
standing the local reluctance to experimenting on unusual species, 
these Sea-Bream were very smartly disposed of, and I considered 
_ myself fortunate in obtaining one for the Norwich Museum, whither 
I dispatched it—Artuur H. Patterson (Ibis House, Great Yar- 
mouth). 
Lesser Forkbeard at Yarmouth.—My first find from the shrimpers, 
who, in spite of the inclement season, have started shrimping much 
earlier than usual, is a very small example of the Lesser Forkbeard 
