454 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



When plentiful returns are small, and when Smelts are some- 

 what scarcer prices go up. The highest price ever realized for 

 Smelts, to my knowledge, was in May, 1905, when five shillings 

 and ninepence was sent per score by London salesmen, after all 

 expenses had been deducted. Two shillings a score appears to 

 be the minimum price. 



Quite a large number of Sail Flukes (Rhombus megastoma), 

 varying from 11 in. to 18 in., brought over from Lowestoft, 

 were exposed for sale in the town during the first week in 

 May. 



On May 17th a large Skate (probably the Long-nosed Ray), 

 part of which I saw, was on view in the town, having been sent, 

 I believe, from the South of England. It weighed 120 lb. 



The Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is singu- 

 larly indifferent to the water in which it finds itself, and is found 

 quite as lively and protestingly in a beachman's seine as in a 

 boy's net at the ditches. My boys brought some home in May. 

 One fish I allowed to remain two days in fresh water, and then 

 transferred it to a tank in which lived some Whelks, a Sea- 

 Anemone, and a Eisso's Crab (Xantho rivulosa). It seemed 

 perfectly at ease, and showed no irritation or surprise when, 

 after five daj^s in their society, it again found itself in fresh 

 water, in company with several small Carp. 



Jago's Goldsinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris), new to Norfolk, came 

 to hand on June 5th. 



A " double " Turbot was also brought to me on June 5th, 

 which I ate. 



A great number of Little Gobies (Gobius minutus), taken on 

 Breydon, full of spawn ; and a White Goby {Latruncalus pellu- 

 cidus), the first I have ever known taken there, came up in a 

 small trawl-net. 



On June 19th I met with a Turbot almost wholly white, of 

 three pounds weight ; the only traces of the normal colour on 

 the upper surface were a small ring of brown around each eye, 

 and a fine splashing of the same hue on the surrounding fins. 

 There were no tubercles on the upper side, which was as smooth 

 and polished as a china-plate. 



" Myriads untold " of tiny Herrings — so-called " whitebait," 

 and more correctly " herring-syle." In June, boys with small 



