446 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Maid’s Head, considerable numbers of this pretty golden-hued 
fish are found, rather undersized, and probably chronically 
hungry. I paid this place a visit on July 30th in order to 
secure one or two for atank at home, and notwithstanding the 
freely offered advice of the village school children, who flocked 

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round in a crowd, I hooked a dozen Carp in a very short time. 
They ran to four inches and a little over in length, and took red- 
worms and gentles indiscriminately ; they were lively enough in 
a small bait-can, although I had seven miles to cart them on a 
broiling hot afternoon, the hottest of the year. They were at 
home almost directly I turned them into my tank, and none have 
died up to the time of writing, although they get but little food, 


BuLu-DoG CopD-FISH. 
except the vegetation which grows on the sides and bottom of the 
tank. With them, in perfect amity, live a couple of small Roach. 
All of them have grown considerably since 1 have kept them. 
Another bull-dog codling, Aug. 10th (fig. supra). 
Some abnormally high tides occurred on the local rivers in the 
middle of August; in the Bure they did great damage to the 
fishes, and many Roach and Bream and small Pike succumbed. 
