5 ;} 
Forty-five were caught at one time, two of wliich he kindly sent to 
me for examination measured over five feet long. All the females 
contained fully developed young ones more than a foot in length. 
The season at which these take a bait is in June and early in July, 
after which time they cease to be caught. Their food at this time 
appears to consist chiefly of crabs and starfish. 
Zygcena malleus (Cuv.) Hammer Head. 
Only one is mentioned as having been taken at Yarmouth, Xov. 
24th, 1829. This is .referred to in Messrs. Paget’s list, and in 
(Jouch’s British Fishes. The head and tail were presented to the 
Norwich Museum, by Mr. Dawson Turner. 
Mustelus vuloauis (M. & II.) Smooth Hound. 
Norfolk Estuary. 
Fam. II. — Lamnmd.e. 
Damn A cornubica (Gm.) Porbeagle. 
Yarmouth. — P. Two examples. Mundesley. — “A large speci- 
men, the skull of which is in the Norwich Museum.” — J. H. G. 
Alopecias vulpes (Gm.) Thrasher. 
Yarmouth. Mr. Gunn reports the capture of one by the crew of 
a lugger engaged in the mackerel fishery, 4th July, 1867. Its total 
length was 1 4 ft. 5 in. ; girth below pectoral fin, 6 ft. ; tail, from 
tip to root, 7 ft. 4 in. 
This species was first described by Dr. Cains, from a specimen 
stranded between Lowestoft and Pakefield (Suffolk) in February, 
1570. Vide “De Canibus Britannicis,” &c., lib. ii. “ De Vario- 
rum Animalium,” &c., p. 28. 
Selache maxima (Gunner.) Basking Shark. 
Yarmouth. — P. The figure in Yarrell’s work was taken from 
drawings of this specimen, sent to !Mr. Yarrell, by I^Ir. J. H. 
Gurney. 
Sir Thomas Browne says; — “This year (1662) one was taken 
entangled in the herring nets, about nme feet in length, answering 
to the last figure of Johnstonus, lib. vii, under the name of Caius 
carchariiis alter; and was by the teeth and five gills, one kind of 
shark, particularly remarkable in the vastness of the optic nerves. 
