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APPENDIX. 
B. 
FISH OF THE AVON. 
The river Avon abounds with fish, particularly eels and 
pike, which are extremely fine, some of the former have been 
taken nearly six pounds weight, though they generally average 
from two to four. A pike was caught near Evesham weighing 
twenty-one pounds, last December. The carp are far more 
rare, though some very large ones have been occasionally 
caught; one of fifteen pounds was brought to this place, 
having been taken near Wyre. Tench and trout are rare ; large 
chub and bream are plentiful, as well as the smaller kinds of fish, 
viz. gudgeons, bleak, roach, dace, which are very numerous, 
and there are some fine perch. That singular little fish the 
loche ( Gobitis harhatula,) is scarce, though 1 have seen a few 
specimens. 
I will here mention a curious confirmation of the opinion in 
favour of the overland migration of eels. A relation of the late 
Mr. Perrott's was out in his park with his keeper, near a large 
piece of water, on a very beautiful evening, when the keeper 
drew his attention to a fine eel quietly ascending the bank of 
the pool, and with the turning motion of a snake making its 
way through the long grass ; on further observation he 
perceived a considerable number of eels quietly proceeding to 
a range of stews, nearly the distance of a quarter of a mile 
from the large piece of water from whence they started. The 
stews were supplied by a rapid brook, and in all probability 
the instinct of the fish led them in that direction as a means 
* This information is extracted from a Paper the Society was favoured with from 
one of their talented honorary corresponding Members, Mrs. Perrott, of the Chan- 
fcrj, Fladbury. 
