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atrarius) is exhibited as the only survivor (!) captured out of a 

 consignment from Austria that had been deposited in local 

 waters ; the others, it is believed, were all devoured by the 

 Oulton Pike. Tench, Rudd, and Dace are represented, and a 

 Golden Tench of 2 lb. from a pond near Lowestoft. There 

 are some fine Perch, taken from one catch, and a well-preserved 

 plaster cast of a fine lot of Roach, which suggests Buckland. 

 Host Home believes that the falling-off in the numbers of fresh- 

 water fishes in that locality is greatly due to the disturbance 

 caused by motor and steam launches, which fling a turbulent 

 wake into the reeds, beating the vitality out of the ova thereto 

 attached. There would seem some truth in this theory. 



On the edge of a small arm of Lake Lothing, cut off from the 

 main Broad by a railway embankment, and probably scarcely so 

 salt, although connected by a sluice, I found dead examples of 

 Gasterosteus aculeatus, varieties of both the Rough-tailed and 

 Quarter-armed Stickleback. These had probably been killed in 

 sexual fights ; they were males in good colour, but had been 

 bitten, apparently by crustaceans. It was odd to see stretches of 

 reeds and sedges forefronted by "Raw" {Chcetomorpha linum) 

 and " Cabbage" (Ulvce lactuca), species of semi-marine plants so 

 commonly found on Breydon mud-flats, in among which I saw 

 Idotea and Spharomida, which were lively and busy enough. In 

 the basins of the outer harbour Atherines were abundant, and 

 Herring-syle was flashing in the sunlit waters. 



There are numerous ponds, mostly private, scattered about 

 East Suffolk which I should like to have explored, as well as 

 riverways, locks, &c. I visited the Waveney on Aug. 12th, in 

 company with Mr. H. E. Hurrell, who is keen on Rotifera and 

 Polyzoa, and from what I saw of the life teeming in its trans- 

 lucent depths, and in odd corners rank with water-plants, I 

 sincerely envied those whose opportunities to study it were 

 better than mine. The Waveney, the Blythe, and the Aide, with 

 their circuitous meanderings and marshy connections, invite 

 careful research ; while further to the south-east of the county 

 still more mignificent opportunities offer in the wide-spreading 

 estuaries of the Deben, the Orwell, and the Stour, whose marine 

 fauna should provide excellent lists. 



To come back to the marine fishes of East Suffolk — there is 



