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SIR THOMAS BROWNE AS A NATURALIST. 
Aphia cebites marina. The Spotted Goby. Pennant. ( Apliya 
cobites of Kondeletius.) 
Belennus, a Sea-miller’s Thumb. Probably the Short-spined 
Cottus ( Cottus scorpius). 
Funduli marini , Sea-gudgeons. Pennant gives Sea-gudgeon as 
a name for the Black Goby or Eock-fish, found on rocky parts 
of the British coasts. 
Alosce or Chads. “To be met with about Lynne.” Twaite 
or Allis Shad. 
Spirinches or Smelt. Smelt “ In greatest plentie about Lynne,” 
where a small fish, called a “ Primme ” is considered by Browne as 
a young Smelt. 
Asclli or Cod, of several sorts. 
Asellus albus or Whiting. 
Asellus niger , carbonarius, or Coal-fisii. Gadus virens (Day). 
Asellus minor. Haddock ( Gadus aglefinus). 
Basse. Bass. Lubrax lupus (Day). 
Scombri or Mackerel. Browne bad doubts as to the good 
qualities of Mackerel as food, owing to the statement of Bondeletius, 
that they feed upon Sea-stars and Squalders. Day in ‘ British 
Fishes,’ vol. i. p. 83, says : “ Their food is a subject in which much 
remains to be investigated. Doubtless they prey upon members 
of the Herring family, and the fry of such forms as come in their 
way,” and also, amongst other things, “ upon a species of Jelly-fish 
at Mevagissey.” 
Herring. 
Sprats or Sard jo. 
Bleak or Blicjo. Alburnus lucidus. 
Pilchard. “Though this sea aboundeth not with Pilchards, 
yet they are commonly taken among Herrings.” Yarrell, quoting 
Couch, says “that the Pilchard is never seen in the Northern 
Ocean, and the few that sometimes wander through the Straits of 
Dover, or the British Channel, have evidently suffered from passing 
so far out of their accustomed limits” (‘British Fishes,’ vol. ii. p. 96). 
Conger. 
Sand-eel. Smoulds. Larger Launce ( Ammodytes lunceolatus , 
Day.) 
Pungitius marinus or Sea-bansticle. Rough-tailed Stickle- 
back ( Gasterosteus tracliurus, Day.) 
