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Scomber thynnus (L.). Tunny. 
Mr. Southwell writes, November 29th, 187G : “A fine Tunny 
was cast ashore at Bacton oi^the 24th inst. It was in an exhausted 
state, hut not dead. Yesterday I saw it in Norwich. It is a 
beautiful fish, measuring 9 ft. 4 in. in length.” 
Zeus faber (L.). Doree. 
One taken in a Lobster-pot off Sheringham, October 1st, 
1881.”— T. S. 
* Capros aper (Cuv.). Boar-fish. 
Has not been previously recorded as occurring in Norfolk. 
Mr. A. Patterson of Yarmouth (July 9th, 1881) found a specimen 
on a shrimper’s board. It had been caught the same morning. 
It measured five inches in length, and was of a lovely carmine colour. 
Mr. Southwell informs me that a second specimen was found dead 
on Yarmouth beach on the 1st May, 1882. 
The Boar-fish was first recorded as having been taken off the 
British coast in 1825, when it was regarded as so great a rarity 
as to be worthy of presentation to Her Majesty the Queen. Since 
that time it has occurred, in some numbers, on the south coast, 
scarcely a year passing without its being met with. In 1877 it 
was taken in great numbers on the south coast, and one found as 
far north as Grimsby. In 1879 it was again numerous on the 
south and east coast, where it is met with every year, occasionally 
in very large numbers. 
Brama Eaii (B1.). Bay’s Bream. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, in writing of this rare species, of which 
only two examples had been previously recorded, says : “Miss Gurney 
of Northrepps (November 9 th, 1821) made an accurate drawing of a 
full-sized fish of this species, which was found, after a storm, on 
Cromer beach.” 
XiPHiAS GLADius (L.). Sword-fisb. 
In the ‘Lynn Advertiser,’ July 18th, 1879, there is a notice of 
one caught in a Mackarel-net at Sheringham by Matthew Scotter. 
It measured 9 ft. 6 in. Mr. Southwell mentions another of the same 
size, which was stranded on the beach at Palling, October 30th, 1881 ; 
and a third was taken off Wolferton Creek, October 30tli, 1883, 
