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A specimen in the Norwich Museum was presented by Mr. J. 
II. Gurney. 
Often caught in Blakeney harbour on liand lines baited with 
Ammodytes lancea ; it varies from 4 to 6 or 7 lbs. in weif^ht.” 
Eev. E. W. Dowell. 
Acerina cernua (Giinth.) Euff or Pope. 
In the Ouse above Denver. 
Mr. Lubbock speaks of it as being found “in large shoals in the 
Norfolk rivers.” Paget mentions it “in the rivers and broads.” 
Mr. Gurney has met with it in the Yare and Wensum. With the 
former of these rivers there is considerable historical interest in 
coniiection with this fish. “ (Juvier assigns the credit of its first 
discovery to an Englishman whose name Avas Gains (Dr.) He 
found it in the river Yare and called it Aspvedo, a translation of 
our name ruffe (rough.) Gains sent the first figure of this fish to 
Gesner, who published itP—Yarrell, vol. i, 17, British Pishes. 
“Aspredo fluvialis pisces est, toto corpore asper, jjinnis spinosis, percEe 
forma et magnitudine. ***** Locis gaudet arenosis : et 
cum alibi in Britannia turn precipue in Hiero flumine (quod nostrum Nordo- 
vicum alluens, in Baradenum estuarium ad Hieri ostium (Hiermouth, Yar- 
mouth) oppidura turn piscatu, turn portu celebre, illabitur) frequens est, 
Nostri Rufium vocant : quod cum Latinis asperum significat, Asprediuem 
piscem nominavimus.”— De Rariorum Animalium, £'c. 1570. 
Spenser, in his “ Marriage of the Thames and Medway,” writes : — 
“Next Cometh Yar, soft washing Norwich walls. 
And with him bringeth to their festival 
Fish, whose like none else can show 
The which men Ruffins call.” 
And Sir Thomas Browne speaks of “ the Aspredo perca minor, 
and probably cermia of Gardan (?) commonly called a ruff ; in 
great plenty in Norw'ich, and even in the stream of that city ; 
which though Gamden appropriates unto this city, yet they are 
also found in the rivers of Oxford and Gambridge.” 
Easi. VI. — Mullid,e. 
Mullus Surmuletus (L.) Surmullet. 
In the History of Yarmouth it is stated that “ 10,000 Avero sent 
in one week, in IMay, 1831, to the London market.” Though the 
