NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
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Sole (Solca vulgaris) which had at no period of its existence 
possessed a tail. The fish was perfectly oval, the posterior 
extremity corresponding in form to the anterior end ; the fins 
ran completely round. It measured 7 inches in extreme 
length, with a width of 3! inches, inclusive of the fins. 
Jago’s Goldsinny (Ctcnolabrus rupestris) came to hand on 
no less than three occasions, viz. : — One on June 24th. another 
on August 6th, and a third a little later on. Three examples 
of this fish in one summer suggested an unusual number in this 
locality, which is singular, seeing that up till June, 1906. 
1 had never before met with it in this neighbourhood. The 
specimens were a little over 3 inches in length. 
Considerable “ bunches ” of young Starlings on Breydon 
marshes latter end of J une. Several young Herons on Breydon 
June 30th ; they were very industriously searching for small 
Eels. ~ 
July 7th. A Greater Weever ( Trachinus draco) taken in 
a smelt-net on Breydon ; the Lesser Weever ( T . vipera) was 
’ numerously taken in July and August. 
July 13th. A Nuthatch (Sctta cccsia) captured on the Beach 
Gardens, was placed in a cage, where it roosted at night 
hanging head downwards from the perch. It was. however, 
so restless and excited by day that it injured its head, and 
died after a few days of prison life. 
On July 19th a Sturgeon (Acipenscr slurio) weighing 20 
stone 7 lbs., was on view in the town, having been captured 
by a Lowestoft smack. 
August 4th. Two adult Oyster Catchers ( Hamatopus 
ostralegus) fast asleep, nearly all the afternoon, on the edge of 
a flat. 
Black-headed Gulls are extremely partial to the small 
Red Ragworm ( Nereid ) which swarms the muds in myriads. 
A flock of these birds will alight at a given spot, scatter in 
extended file, and advance head to wind, often walking a mile 
in a slow and methodical manner, seizing and dragging out 
these worms as they travel. A considerable flock must devour 
many thousands in the course of an hour’s ramble, for they are 
pulling them out and swallowing them at every two or three 
