448 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
hermaphroditic, containing both roe and milt. Hach lobe con- 
sisted of two-thirds roe, the remaining third being milt, which 
latter was situated-at the posterior end of the abdominal cavity. 
This freak was kept for a week for my inspection, but got muddled 
away because its finder was too busy to look me up. I have twice 
before seen instances of this kind. | 
A rather unusual catch, for the time of the year, of Norwegian 
Lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) was made early in November, a 
“trunk” of them being sent to Yarmouth. On overhauling a 
number spread in the window of a fishmonger’s I discovered no 
fewer than five examples with distorted greater pincer-claws. 
This species seems more “‘addicted”’ to malformation than any 
other crustacean I have seen. 
The Herring fishery, to the time of writing, has been up— 
to the average, and the scene at the fish-wharf, on a brisk day, 
with the hundreds of steam drifters and numerous Continental 
cargo steamers lying along the quay for nearly a couple of 
miles, loading or discharging their silvery cargoes, the passing 
up and down the river of full or empty drifters, with smoking 
funnels, hooting syrens, and scale-clad, unwashed crews per- 
forming the tasks incidental to the present conditions aboard, 
make up a scene which absolutely beggars description ; nor is 
the picture complete without noticing the hundreds of hurrying 
vehicles and busy carters, and the myriad tubs of ‘‘ barrel-town ”’ 
spread across the extensive Denes (sand-dunes), among which, 
like bees in a hive, labour thousands of Scotch fisher-girls gut- 
ting and pickling the Herrings. 
Mackerel did not show up so numerously at Yarmouth during 
the earlier part of the fishing, but on Noy. 12th a remarkable 
glut occurred at Lowestoft, the Mackerel having been met with 
in immense shoals. At Lowestoft I hear that Mackerel were 
never before so plentiful, and several boat-owners hastened to 
change their Herring-nets for Mackerel-nets. One craft, the 
‘ Nugget,’ had a record catch; it was estimated that she landed 
just four ‘‘ lasts,” or nearly fifty thousand fish. So full of fish 
were the nets that not half could be stowed in the net-room, and 
the remainder, still “‘ gilled,” lay in the huge heap piled on the 
deck. ‘‘Cleaning’’ (emptying) the nets after a Herring haul 
is not a difficult task, the fishermen merely shaking the net of 
