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SIR THOMAS BROWNE AS A NATURALIST. 
Lampetra. Lampreys. Great and small. 
Mustela fluviatilis or Eel-pout. Burbot. Lota vulgaris (Day). 
Gudgeons or Funduli fluviatiles. Gudgeons. 
Capitones fluviatilis or Miller’s Thumbs. 
Pungitius fluviatilis or Stanticle. Tiiree-spined Stickle- 
back. Gasterosteus aculeatus (Day). Stanstickle in the Eastern 
Counties. 
Aphia cobites fluviatilis or Loche. Loach. 
Common Eel. Sharp-nosed Eel. 
Glot. Broad-nosed Eel. Day does not consider this to be 
a separate species. 
Carpiones, Carp. “ Plentiful in ponds.” Gunther in ‘ Study 
of Fishes’ states “that 1614 is assigned as the date of first 
introduction of this fish into England,” but Day remarks on its first 
mention “in Dame Juliana Berners’ Boke of St. Albans, published 
in 1496” (‘British Fishes’). Pennant speaks of the Carp having 
been “introduced here in 1514.” 
Mammalia. 
Though the following Mammals are included in the “ Account of 
Fishes,” we must not suppose that Browne was ignorant of their 
distinct nature, as Aristotle had, long before, pointed this out. 
Up to Bay’s time, one might say that all marine animals were 
considered as fishes. 
Spermaceti Whale. Mr. Southwell states that the only 
recorded, though certainly not the only occurrences of this Whale 
on the Norfolk coast, are by Sir T. Browne. In a chapter in the 
‘Vulgar Errors’ Browne explains the nature of spermaceti and 
ambergris. 
Grampus. 
Tursio or Porpoise. 
Dolphin. “ The Dolphin more rare [than the Porpoise] though 
sometimes taken wch many confound with the Porpoise.” No 
instance of the occurrence of D. delphis on the Norfolk coast is 
known to naturalists of the present day. 
Vitidus marinus , Sea-calf or Seal. Phoca vitulina (Linn.). 
One shot “about Surlingbam Ferry.” 
Otter. 
