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SOME FISH-NOTES FKOM GREAT YARMOUTH 

 FOR 1909. 



By Arthur H. Patterson. 



An error inadvertently made by me in " Notes for 1908 " 

 (Zool. pp. 445, 449) it would be well to correct. Crucian Carp, 

 referred to as occurring numerously at Lound, should have been 

 Prussian Carp (Carassius gibelio). During the summer of 1909 

 I was fortunate in obtaining examples of C. vulgaris (the Crucian 

 Carp), the Mirror Carp (Cyprinus specularis), and a hybrid, 

 identified by the British Museum authorities as between the 

 Common and Crucian Carps. Several of the latter have lived 

 for some time in amity with some gibelio in one of my tanks. 



The past year has brought to notice several deformities 

 among Cods, the " bull-dog " variety, with shortened upper lip, 

 in particular ; and on January 5th I examined an example with 

 a badly distorted under jaw, the result of an accident ; the barb 

 or labial cartilage was growing on the right side instead of 

 depending amidships below. 



A few boats put out after Shrimps as early as the first week 

 in January. Several very good catches of " Pinks " (Pandalus 

 annulicomis) were brought in on the 8th, many of them being 

 large in berry. I found them also in spawn in February. 



January 23rd : Sprats still being taken. I had some for tea, 

 individuals containing roe and milt. 



From the - Angler's News ' annual list of large fishes taken 

 by sea-anglers I culled the following for Yarmouth :-- November 

 (1908), Dab (Pleuronectes limanda), 1 lb. 8 oz. ; October 16th 

 (1909), Flounder (Pleuronectes flesus) , 3 lb. 15£ oz. 



A Jago's Goldsinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris), of a beautiful 

 pink colour, 3| in. in length, brought me by a shrimper's boy 

 on April 26th. It smelt very much like celery. A Ballan 

 Wrasse (Labrus maculatus), of the green variety, 9 in. in length, 

 was taken in a draw-net the following day. 



