SOME FISH-NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH. 463 



Jago's Goldsinney (Ctenolabrus rupestris) must certainly have 

 occurred in local waters this year in unusual numbers. Up till 

 June, 1906, this species had not been recorded for Norfolk ; on 

 the 5th of that month I obtained an example from a local 

 shrimp-boat. On June 24th of this year another was brought 

 me, identical in size with that of last year (viz. about four 

 inches), and two others subsequently. Three in one season 

 certainly suggests the probability of others in the locality that 

 were probably destroyed, as well as escaped the nets. 



Greater Weever (Trachinas draco) taken on Breydon, July 

 7th, the first I have known captured there. Lesser Weevers are 

 abundantly taken in August. 



Herring-syle abounded on Breydon and on the rivers during 

 August. Myriads of these small fishes, flashed at the surface in 

 their sportive wanderings, to the great delight of the unusual 

 number of Common and other Terns that came to share in the 

 spoils. When left stranded in kicking shoals on the flats by the 

 fall of the tide the numerous Gulls joined in the foray, and filled 

 their crops with them. When netting with Jary the watcher on 

 August 18th we unwittingly drew to the mud-flats numbers of 

 these little Herrings, some of the more obese of which I dissected 

 on my return to the houseboat. I found some examples literally 

 packed with Opossum Shrimps ; one little 4|- in. fellow had its 

 stomach so distended that the compact mass of crustaceans 

 equalled in size a Barcelona nut. The Smelts had a high time 

 among the "whitebait," and the large number of Atherines 

 (Atherina presbyter) frequenting Breydon this summer (!) also 

 fed freely on the smaller ones. 



On gutting a Breydon-caught Flounder, on August 21st, to 

 fry for my tea, I found in its stomach a younger Flounder — an 

 unusual thing — that must certainly, from its size, have been 

 doubled up in order to be swallowed. 



A queerly formed Eel was preserved for me by a local dealer 

 in Eels named Brand. It was strangely "crinkled" from the 

 head to the tail, giving one the curious idea of a cockscrew that 

 had been crushed flat. It is many years since I saw one pre- 

 cisely similar. 



A lad when fishing from some baulks moored by the side of 

 Breydon, observing the contortions of a queer little fish in a gap 



