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and Bass has been taken in Sussex and Kentish waters, and one of the 

 catches here was a 341b. "Angler" Fish (Lophius piscatorius) , which 

 fell to the rod of Dr. FitzGerald at Folkestone. The autumn and 

 winter Silver Whiting season has been a disappointing one in a general 

 way. — (Daily Chronicle, January 7th.) 



We have received No. 1, vol. i. of ' The Hastings and East Sussex 

 Naturalist,' dated November 1st, 1906. In some Annual Notes on 

 the Local Fauna, &c, by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, we read : — " Mr. 

 Butterfield has informed me that a very large Fox Shark, Alopias 

 vulpes, Penn., 12 feet long, was exhibited in Hastings some months 

 ago, and a Torpedo, T. nobiliana, Bonap., was taken in August by one 

 of the Hastings fishing-boats." 



In the ' Bradford Scientific Journal ' for this month, Mr. H. B. 

 Booth gives the following record: — "During the third week in 

 December a large fish, on view at the game shop of Mr. W. L. 

 Blakeley, Horton Road, Bradford, attracted considerable attention. It 

 was supposed at the time to be a Salmon hybrid, and it was stated 

 that none of the fisher-folk at Grimsby had ever seen one like it before. 

 The local evening papers of December 17th described it as a large fish, 

 with the head of a Salmon, the body of a Porpoise, and the tail of a 

 Shark. I recognized it as one of the larger species of the Scombridm 

 (Mackerels), and with the aid of ' Our Country's Fishes ' I was able to 

 identify it with certainty as the Short-finned Tunny (Orcymis thynnus), 

 a rare fish in British seas. Its length was 45^- inches, greatest girth 

 about 30 in., and weighed nearly one hundred pounds. Mr. F. King, 

 of Grimsby, who sent the fish to Bradford, writes to say that it was 

 caught on Dec. 10th, five miles to north-east of the Dogger Bank." 



In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xviii. p. 327, Lieut. -Col. D urn- 

 ford has published a second paper on the "Flying-fish Problem." He 

 refers to a recent article in these pages as follows : — 



Lionel E.Adams, B.A., writes in ' The Zoologist ' (April 4th, 1906) 

 an article interesting throughout. I quote from p. 146 : ". . . . I was 

 often able to see them against the sky. ... I could see quite distinctly 

 that their tails were vibrating very rapidly from side to side during the 

 whole flight, and that the wings would vibrate with an intensely rapid 

 shivering motion for a second, then remain outspread motionless for 

 one or two seconds, and then vibrate again. This vibration of the 

 wings is not up and down as in the case when birds fly, but in an 



