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they have taken it off the Suffolk coast. To the trade it is a 

 "Lemon-Sole." Shrimpers term it the " Cock-Sole." 



Flounder (P. flesus). — Abundant. Mr. Canova tells me he 

 captured two in two minutes at South wold weighing respectively 

 3 lb. 8 oz. and 2 lb. 8 oz. I saw a young fellow on Lowestoft 

 wharf with a small heap of this species on August 30fch, which 

 he had taken in a jointed hoop-net. He offered me fine ones at 

 a shilling the dozen. Col. Leathe3 (' Rough Notes ') informs us 

 he once took up a bow-net in Fritton Decoy with a live Flounder 

 in it ; it must have come up from the river Waveney, " and 

 passed into the Run Dyke, and . . . jumped through the trap in 

 the lock, and eventually reached the fresh water of the lake." 

 He further informs us he " made a breakfast off Flounder next 

 morning." It is possible that practical jokers are not exclusively 

 a Norfolk product (!). The Flounder at certain seasons is an 

 excellent fish for the table, but locally is not of much commercial 

 value at any time. 



Sole (Solea vulgaris). — Taken in some numbers all along the 

 Suffolk coast. I saw catches brought in at Lowestoft, South- 

 wold, and at Aldeburgh. Sir Thomas Browne in noting the Sole 

 goes on to say: "Also the Lingula or small Sole all in very 

 great plentie." In a footnote (p. 45) Mr. T. Southwell remarks : 

 "It is possible that Browne may have Latinised the trade name 

 by which small Soles are known to the market as ' slips ' and 

 ' tongues.' " In Norwich Museum are two abnormally coloured 

 examples taken off Lowestoft : one, 14 in. long, of a rich salmon 

 colour, taken Oct. 5th, 1903, and one with a yellowish ground, 

 with blackish blotches, 10 in. long, dated 1872. 



Salmon (Salmo salar). — Southwold (Wake). "Salmon no 

 comon fish in our riuers," says Browne, " though many are 

 taken in the Ouse, in the Bure ... in ye waveney or south 

 riuer." An example was netted in Breydon on Aug. 2nd, 1909, 

 weight 14 J lb., which was in all probability making for the 

 Waveney. Paget's remark that " small ones have very rarely 

 been taken in the Mackerel-net3 " may apply equally to Lowes- 

 toft drifters. 



[American Brook Trout (S. fontinalis). — " The Fish Accli- 

 matization Society has hatched out and deposited a large 

 number of various species of Salmonidce [including this] in the 



