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SOME FISH-NOTES FEOM GBEAT YAEMOUTH 

 FOE 1906. 



By Aethue H. Patteeson, A.M.B.A. 



My fish-entries in the "Note-book" for 1906 are, to me, of 

 no small interest, from the fact that three new species have been 

 added to the fauna of the county of Norfolk, one of which has 

 been pronounced, on competent authority, to be new to the 

 fauna of Great Britain, viz. Scomber thunnina, a species of 

 Bonito by no means unknown in the seas adjoining the west 

 of Europe. The other two are the Megrim and the Jago's 

 Goldsinny. 



In March I obtained a number of wide-mouthed bottles, in 

 which I placed formalin, and fitted them with corks. These 

 were distributed among our local shrimpers for them to drop in 

 any strange small fishes they might perchance find among the 

 Shrimps. The success I met with among the Crustacea I have 

 already made known (ante, p. 331). The first fish brought in 

 was a "bull-dog" Whiting, about a span long, on April 2nd; 

 after which date fishes good, bad, and indifferent almost daily 

 arrived. 



A very pretty little Bubalis (Cottus bubalis) turned up on 

 April 26th ; on the sides were well-defined bands of a darkish 

 hue on a pinkish ground. Length, 2| in. Another, May 12th. 



On April 30fch two Montagu's Suckers (Liparis montagui), 

 both females, came to hand, with an example of the Megrim, or 

 " Scald-fish " (Amoglossus laterna), 4£ in. long. The delicate 

 skin had been somewhat abraded; it seems difficult to procure 

 and preserve one intact. Two more Montagu's Suckers, full of 

 ova, were received on May 1st, and subsequently some others. 



May 11th. — Obtained a four-inch Eock Goby (Gobius niger) 

 from a shrimper. 



Smelt-catching has been most industriously pursued on Brey- 

 don this year, and in some instances with profitable results. 



