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ICHTHYOLOGICAL NOTES. 



peculiarities of the Bull Trout show that it is a distinct species. 

 Omitting the Charrs and the Grayling, I hold that the British 

 Salmo7iidcB consist of Sabiio Salar (the true Salmon), S. Trutta (Sea 

 Trout), S. Cambricus or Eriox (Bull Trout in the north; Sewin proper 

 in Wales), and S. Fario (Common Trout). Dr. Giinther divides this 

 last into two distinct varieties (and my experience in Scotland bears 

 him out), — S. Fario Gaimardi^ the northern form, with larger and more 

 distinct red and black spots, or rather blotches ; and S. Fario Ausonii^ 

 the southern and central European form — our ordinary Brook Trout, 

 including too the Thames Trout. For more exact anatomical 

 differences, see the British Mtiseum Catalogue, ut supra. I add some 

 synonyms of the Bull Trout, mainly from Mr. Satchell's list, — 'Black 

 Trout, Coquet Trout, Grey Trout, Peal, Pug Trout, Roundtail, Sea 

 Trout, Sea Truff, Skurf, Warkworth Trout, Whitling, Sewin, Browning.' 

 A good account of the Bull Trout from the scientific and the angling 

 points of view is much wanted. Will no one write it for the 

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Angler-fish at Whitgift — A specimen oi\hQ Angler {Lophiuspiscatorius) 

 was caught on the 27th May, at Whitgift, six miles below Goole, and 

 was on view next morning at a fishmonger's shop in Goole. It was about twenty 

 inches long, I have not heard of any former capture of this fish in the Ouse, and 

 its occurrence forty-three miles from the coast seems to me worthy of record. — 

 Thomas Bunker, Goole, 28th May, 1884. 



Note on the Fishes of Grimsby about 1300.— To fill up part 



of the long journey to Grimsby on the 3rd inst. , I took with me the Early English 

 Text Society's reprint of the ' Lay of Havelok the Dane,' thinking that, apart from 

 the special interest of renewing the story of the foundation of that ancient town on 

 the spot, I might be able to pick out again from the record of the notable old 

 fisherman the names of the fish he made his fortune by catching and selling. 

 Unfortunately, the author of the Lay, writing about 1300, must be taken to 

 enumerate what he saw in the markets of his day, rather than what Grim caught 

 in the year 600. The list is not a long one. The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 was not yet. Still, as a list of the year 1300, it is perhaps not amiss to reprint it in 

 the Natiii-alist. The following are all the indications of this particular fauna 

 which I have observed : — 



749. Grim was a fisher swithe^ god, ^Exceedingly. 



And mikel couthe^ on the flod ; '^Knew of — could do. 



Mani god fishe thereinne he tok, 



Bothe with nett and with hok. 



He took the sturgiun and the qual,^ ^Whale or grampus. 



And the turbut and lax'^ withal. ^Salmon. 

 He tok the sele and the whel y' ^ Whale or gjampus. • 



Keling he tok and tumberel, Cod and porpoise. 



Hering and the makarel, 



The butte,^ the schulle,'' the thornbacke. ^Halibut. 'Sole? 

 771. When he tok the great laumprei he sold it in Lincoln. 

 895. On the bridge at Lincoln, the Earle's cok bought and got young 

 Havelok (then an unknown porter's lad) to carry up for him — 



. A carte lode 



Of segges,^ laxes, of playces brode ; ^Cuttle-fish (Seches). 



Of grete laumpris, and of eles. 

 We saw tumberels ourselves ; and last week a * hwel,' thirty-three feet long, was fool 

 enough to go into the dock at Goole. — R. D. Darbishire, Manche ster, Sep- 

 tember 7th, 1884. Naturalist, 



