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in the Carlisle market, where his knowledge of local fishes seems 

 to have been chiefly acquired. Small Congers are often taken 

 near Silloth, and large fishes are occasionally hooked upon the 

 long lines in deep water. Dr. Gough mentions one caught at 

 Arnside in September 1872. Another, caught in Silloth Bay, 

 November 1841, weighed 57 lbs. Dead and sick Congers are 

 occasionally washed up on our shores. The Carlisle Journal of 

 November 24, 1876, records that a small Sturgeon, measuring 

 18 inches in length, was found entire in the stomach of a large 

 Conger. The Eel had been captured off Port Patrick and sent 

 to a Carlisle fishmonger. 



Order LOP HO BR A NOHII. Fam. 8 YNQNA THIDuE. 



GREAT PIPE-FISH. 



Syngnathus acus, L. 



This Pipe-fish appears to be of fairly common occurrence in 

 the waters of the English Sol way. The largest local specimen 

 that I have seen measures 15 J inches. This was sent to me by 

 Mr. W. Nicol, who caught it near Silloth in September 1890. 

 Parnell observes : ' The Great Pipe-fish I have also found on the 

 shores of the Solway.' 1 



WORM PIPE-FISH. 



Nerophis lumbriciformis (L.). 



This delicate fish is believed to be not uncommon in the 

 neighbourhood of Whitehaven. Dr. Welby I'Anson showed me 

 three specimens, taken by himself with the bladder wrack in 

 the dredge net. We compared them with Day's figure, and 

 found that they closely agreed with it, although the fine black 

 network traced upon the head of the specimen described by 

 Day was only present on one of the three local examples. 



1 Mem. Wern. Soc, vol. vii. p. 396. 



