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on May 21st. This species undoubtedly becomes rarer in 
local waters each year, owing, I fear, to the increase of sewage 
matter in the river. 
Blue Mackerel : I received my first whole-coloured Blue- 
backed Mackerel ( Scomber concolor), a fifteen-inch specimen, 
on May 25th. A second came to hand on June 1st, 14 in. 
long, and a third two weeks later on. The first example was 
forwarded to the British Museum authorities for examination, 
and was pronounced merely a variety of the common species, 
S. scomber. 
On June 1st I examined some fine Plaice from the White 
Sea. I noticed that the spots were a bright orange set in 
a faint white ring. One fish in particular, which had a dark 
under side, and the corresponding spots (for when a Plaice is 
coloured below it is also spotted, wherever the colouring may 
extend to) had them also set in a ring of white. 
A very beautifully marked Brill brought me on June 29th 
from Lowestoft. The groundwork of the upper surface was 
white, with spots and blotches of the normal colour prettily 
arranged. 
The cold weather of June must have been exceedingly 
trying to the Swifts, Swallows, and House-Martins. For three 
whole bitterly cold weeks I myself saw no insect life, and pitied 
the unfortunate birds. 
July 2nd. Some young Herons and about 30 young and 
adult Redshanks on Breydon. A Spoonbill seen early in the 
month. 
I observed some “ Dogs ” on a fish-slab in a back street 
on July 12th. One, a large Tope (Galeus vulgaris), was des- 
tined for the frying-pan ; another, also fated to share the same 
honours, was a Picked Dog ( Acanthias vulgaris), 3 ft. 3 in. 
long, weighing 9 lb. ; a very large example for this coast. 
On July 14th I received a small example of the Crucian 
Carp ( Carassius vulgaris) from the neighbourhood of South- 
wold. The species found by me at Lound in 1908 and recorded 
in the ‘ Transactions ’ of last year (page 846), which I then 
believed to be Vulgaris, should have been named the Prussian 
Carp (C. gibelio). On comparison I have found gibelio to be 
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