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 FISHES in the upper Soar, although it may occur at its 2 g. Broad-nosed Eel. Anguilla latirostris, Risso. junction with the Trent, which is, I presume, what Locally, Grig. Harley meant. May occur> but GUnther ' says this species prefers the neighbourhood of the sea to distant inland waters ; APODES t h e broad-nosed eel reported to me is probably, there- 27. Eel. Anguilla vulgaris, Turt. fore, only a variety of the preceding and not the true Commonly distributed in the county. A. latirostris. GANOIDS 29. Sturgeon. Acipenser sturio, Linn. Soar below Loughborough, but gave no date. The late A rare and accidental straggler by way of the Mr. Ingram informed me that, many years ago, a small Trent. Harley recorded a specimen taken in the one was taken in the River Smite near Belvoir. CYCLOSTOMES 30. Lampern. Petromyzonjluviatilis, Linn. county, as is also its larval form, and perhaps the T Fringe-lipped Lampern (Petromyzon branchlalis, Linn), Locally, River Lamprey. know ; ,^ ag ^ Lamer or Pride. know, y ag Lamper or Pride. Sparingly found in some of the streams of the a introduction to the Study of Fishes, 673. Ill