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SUPPLEMENTARY FISH-NOTES FROM GREAT 
YARMOUTH. 
By Artruur H. Patterson. 
Since the publication of my Annual Report in the December 
‘Zoologist’ (1911, p. 441), I have received one or two other 
items of piscine interest. 
SUNFISH aT SHERINGHAM.—Thanks to the good offices of a 
Sheringham gentleman, Mr. R. Funnell, I have received a 
description of the stranding of a short Sunfish (Orthagoriscus 
mola) off the north-east Norfolk coast. It was washed ashore 
on Nov. 26th, having undoubtedly succumbed to the buffetings 
of the severe gales prevailing at that time. The length was 
5 ft., the extended dorsal and anal fins measuring 6 ft. 2 in. 
from tip to tip, each fin being 22 in. long. What became of it 
my correspondent did not state. 
PoRBEAGLE GAFFED.—Two sea-anglers, when fishing from a 
boat in the roadstead off Yarmouth on Nov. 29th, observed what 
they at first thought to be a log floating on the surface of the 
sea, but when it turned and came against the tide they at once 
concluded it must be something alive. They hastily pulled up 
their anchors and gave chase, their movements being appa- 
rently unnoticed by the fish, which had evidently been in grief 
either by stress of weather or by contact with fishing-nets. 
With a quick jerk a gaff-hook was made fast to the fish, and a 
lively ten minutes followed. They eventually got it into the 
boat, and to their surprise they found it a young Shark, with a 
goodly array of vicious-looking teeth. I afterwards saw it, and 
found it to be a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna cornubica) about 4 ft. 
in length. (See illustration, p. 30.) 
Haur Axpino Pratce.—On Dec. 5th I saw exhibited on a 
fishmonger’s slab a very attractive-looking Plaice, some 16 in. 
in length. The anterior half of the upper side was of the 
normal colour, with the usual orange spottings, the posterior 
