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Rh †Pleuronectes cynoglossus. Pole, or Craig Fluke. R.—On Feb. 11th, 1892, I found an eighteen-inch example amongst a package of Soles. Another on the wharf, taken by a wolder, on March 21st, 1893; length, 19 in. Dr. Günther, to whom I forwarded it, confirmed my finding. Two small ones on March 14th, 1892. I found another in a heap of Dabs, Jan. 20th, 1896, which is now in Cambridge Museum. Under the name of "Witches," this and the preceding species are frequently taken off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts.

P.flesus. Flounder. C.—Exceedingly abundant in neighbourhood. Ardently angled for on Breydon, prize matches being contested. The "runs" or "drains" veining that estuary at low-water teem with them, particularly in August. They feed on small Crabs, Opossum Shrimps, &c. Herons, Ardea cinerea, in turn, devour swarms of juveniles. With a "butt" pick made of straightened Cod-hooks I have taken from eighty to a hundred Flounders in an hour or two. Sea-caught Flounders are lighter hued than those taken on a muddy bottom. In early August they are plump; in September often thin. In January they spawn on Breydon; have taken twenty-inch examples in twenty feet of water. "Left-handed" Flounders are frequent, often three in every dozen taken. Local, "Butts."

Solea vulgaris. Sole. C.—Shrimpers often net examples; now and again one taken on a hook off the piers, a nineteen-inch fish being taken there in September, 1897. Have seen them on Breydon. The largest of which I have a record weighed 4½ lb.; length, 23¾ in.; width, 8¾ in. Somewhat scarcer than formerly. An example minus even the vestige of a tail, Feb. 25th, 1896; length, 7½ in.; width, 4¾ in.; three inches short of normal length. At a fish-shop, on Jan. 20th, 1890, I examined a Sole which had the mouth reversed, and opening towards the dorsal fin instead of turning down to the ventrals.

* S. lascaris. Lemon Sole. A.—On Jan. 21st, I met with a small example on the fish-wharf, which I forwarded to. Mr. T. Southwell for identification. Only recorded previously for the Norfolk estuary—"several examples." [I have reason to believe careful investigation would add the Variegated Sole, S. variegata, to the local list.]

Salmo salar. Salmon. R.—: "Small ones have very rarely