NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
4OI 
Fishes. 
and sympathy of the local shrimpers, might add to my lists 
of Fishes and Crustaceans. I had experienced hitherto 
great disappointments with regard to strange “ finds,” which 
had often been “ hull’d overboard because you didn’t come,” 
or “ they hadn’t time to find me up.” So I thought of 
a scheme which I at once put into operation. I collected 
a considerable number of empty, broad-based paste bottles 
from the various lawyers’ and other offices in the town ; 
these 1 cleaned and half filled with formalin, and gave them 
to a shrimper friend, who drives himself about in an invalid’s 
chair, to distribute to the various shrimp-boats, and gather 
them in again at intervals. These men were glad to help 
their unfortunate comrade, whom I also paid a small fee 
weekly. It was interesting, to me, to see him carrying out 
my instructions, in his conveyance. From this source (with 
the exception of the New Scomber) the whole of the following 
list of species, new to Norfolk, were obtained : — 
Scomber thunnina. 
' J ago’s Goldsinny ( Ctenolabrns rupestris, Cuvier). 
* Megrim (Arnoglossus Interna, Gunther). 
[" Ross ” Crab (Xantho rivulosa, Edwards). 
Livid Swimming Crab (Port units holsatus, Fabr.). 
Leach’s Prawn (Palcemon leachii, Bell). 
Hippolyte pandalijormis. Bell. 
Sowerby’s Hippolyte (H. spinus, Bell). 
Thompson’s Hippolyte ( H . Thompsoni, Bell). 
ISpiny Shrimp (Crangon spinosus, Leach). 
The Brambling appears to have been fairly abundant 
in the latter part of the winter of 1905-6. Quite a number 
congregated on the litter left after the removal of a haystack 
on the Southtown marshes in January. The seeds of a certain 
weed, possibly the Charlock, were an attraction to them. 
An adult Gannet was brought me alive on January 18th ; 
it had been blown by a strong wind into the sail of a fishing- 
boat. 
Wood Pigeons were exceedingly plentiful in the neighbour- 
hood in February, and were destructive to the young crops. 
February 26th. Saw a Sowerby’s Hippolyte for the first 
Stalk-eyed 
Crustaceans. 
