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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
As it is also said to be found in the Mediterranean Sea, it "will be 
seen that this, or closely allied species, are spread over a very 
considerable range of latitude. It is not unlikely this pretty little 
fish may be of more frequent occurrence on our coast than is 
generally supposed ; but its small size, and the mutilated state in 
which, judging from those I have seen, it has been procured, 
through the shedding of the beautiful and easily detached scales, 
would sufficiently account for its being overlooked. — T. Southwell. 
Four-bearded Eoukling (Motella cimbra). Mr. Arthur 
Patterson, of Yarmouth, sent me a sketch and description of a 
specimen of this rare fish which he found amongst the refuse left 
by the draw-netters on Yarmouth beach on the 23rd of May, 1889. 
This species had not been previously recorded for Norfolk, and, 
I think, not for the east coast of England, and is the second 
addition made by Mr. Patterson this spring to the list of Norfolk 
fishes. — T. Southwell. 
4JUN.92 
