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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



PISCES. 



Tailless Sole. — On June 19th I bad brought to me by a fish-hawker 

 a small Sole (Solea vulgaris), which at no period of its existence had 

 owned a caudal appendage, the posterior extremity of the fish being 

 perfectly rounded, and the dorsal and anal fins quite continuous, with- 

 out a break. The fish measured 7 in. in extreme length, with a width 

 of 3^ in., inclusive of the fins. As will be seen by the photograph, the 



Tailless Sole (Solea vulgaris). 



fish is quite oval in shape. There was a slight damage to the fin- 

 membrane at the extreme end, done probably in tbe trawl-net. I 

 met with a specimen of this fish (vide ' Notes of an East Coast 

 Naturalist,' p. 225) in 1890, somewhat similarly malformed, but in 

 that instance the two fins turned in, making a V-shaped inlet. — Arthur 

 H. Patterson (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth). 



