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Show 1879.] OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. 761 description, but which I have never seen, called frog-mouthed by the fishermen, from the extraordinary width of its month." In August I received two Eels, each 3 feet long, from the Severn, taken on the same day : the head of one is most curiously flattened, probably due to some injury received in its early development; but the fishermen asserted that this example is one of the third variety, probably identical with that termed frog-mouthed Eel by Hastings. Its snout is very broad, lips comparatively thin, and the angle of the mouth below the hind margin of the eye. CONGER VULGARIS, Cuvier. The Conger Eel. Small ones are common at Weston ; and many are captured by lads from under stones, where they have sought shelter as the tide ebbed. SIPHONOSTOMA TYPHLE, Linn. The Broad-nosed Pipefish. SYNGNATHUS ACUS. The Great Pipefish. NEROPHIS ^EQUOREUS. The Ocean Pipefish. These fishes have all been recorded from Somersetshire. TETRODON LAGOCEPHALUS, Linn., or T. PENNANTII, Yarrell. Rather a fine stuffed example, 15 inches long, exists in the Weston Museum. It was purchased from a local bird- and animal-preserver, so is probably a local specimen; but no history is obtainable. If we turn to the records of where this fish has been taken in Great Britain, we find that the British Museum possesses an example from Charmouth in Dorsetshire ; one is recorded from Waterford in Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, a second in the ' Zoologist' for 1853, and a third Irish example at Wexford in 1850 ; two are recorded from the Orkneys in the ' Zoologist ' for 1853, while many have been taken in Cornwall. Consequently the capture of one in Somersetshire would be no peculiar circumstance. ORTHAGORISCUS TRUNCATUS, Linn. Oblong Diodon. Has been captured in Somersetshire. ORTHAGORISCUS MOLA, Bl. Schneider. The Sunfish. This is said to have been seen off Somersetshire. During the last season, Lord Ducie (August 13th) saw one of these fish in Ballinskellig Bay. I give the following summary from some interesting observations which his Lordship made during a previous season. There is no locality in the United Kingdom where the Shorter Sunfish, Orthagoriscus mola, is more frequently seen than off the south-west coast of Ireland; and Lord Ducie remarks that he has frequently fallen in with them all along the coast from Dungarvan to Valencia. August 1877, a boat's crew from his lordship's yacht returning from long lining fell in with a large one lying on the surface in its usual lazy fashion, the projecting caudal fin describing the segment of a circle in the air, as the unwieldly body rolled with every |