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much to be done by careful observation ; draw-netter's catches 

 are to be watched to some profit, whilst shrimpers and wolders 

 and punters, who trawl and dredge in the shallows and deeps 

 around the Corton, Newcome, and Barber Sands, the Holm, the 

 Sizewell Bank, and Aldeburgh Napes and the Kidge — the " rough 

 grounds " and the sandy stretches— meet with a great variety of 

 genera, some of which, as the Gobidce, the Blennies, and the flat- 

 fishes, muster quite a number of individual species. As a case 

 in point — on June 16th, 1906, during a walk along Southwold 

 beach, on which I casually looked into the boats drawn up 

 awaiting the morrow's tide, I recognized no fewer than eighteen 

 species, among them the Pogge, Spotted and Thornback Rays, 

 Tope, Picked Dog, Greater Weever, and a very beautiful fresh 

 Pilchard. 



To further augment the list, investigations should be carried 

 on in winter as well as in summer, for during storms and severe 

 weather curious fishes, as the Opah and the Bay's Bream, 

 muddled among the sand banks, might be washed ashore. Some 

 of my rarest finds at Yarmouth, e.g. the Miiller's Scopelus 

 (Maurolicus borealis) and the above-named species, have been 

 thus unceremoniously tumbled upon the beach. The good- 

 fellowship and co-operation of fishermen should be enlisted ; 

 there are ways of winning their help and sympathies besides an 

 occasional screw of tobacco, and were they assured that a 

 reasonable price attached to the bringing in of a strange 

 although to them a worthless fish, it would soon find its way 

 into the hands of a generous collector. The good offices of sea- 

 anglers also are not to be despised, and even the urchins who 

 loaf around quaysides may be made useful in adding to a 

 naturalist's happiness. 



The List of Species which follows is by no means a complete 

 one ; there are many gaps, even among the commoner species, 

 to be filled in — fish which I am certain are to be found, and 

 have been, but, as I have not had proper verification, have 

 been necessarily left out, to be discovered and added by any 

 person having time as well as inclination to follow my lead. 



The abbreviations are as follow : — Nor. N. S. means ' Trans- 

 actions ' of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society; [ ], 

 not indigenous or doubtful. 



(To be continued.) 



