most easily taken in the early morning. The young only are taken by the angler off projecting rocks; the old ones keep in deeper water. At Plymouth, the principal ground for Pollacks, is off the Mewstone. In Rod-and-line fishing on the rocks, lugs are mostly used, Rock-fish, Melets or Smelts, Pollacks, &c. biting at them freely. Launce are most easily taken from their retreats in the sand during moonlight nights. Chads (young Sea Breams) bite, greedily, at the generality of baits, and, multitudes are taken by most marine fishers during summer. Poutings are mostly taken on rocky ground, especially where the hollows are deep. Ordinary baits succeed, but, the lug is the best Whitings occur on sandy ground; a hand line with a plummet is employed. The usual baits are successful, but, lugs are best. Dabs, when fished for by hand lines, or, by the rod, from projecting rocks, take lugs, limpets, or other shell fish as bait Turbots will take baits of several kinds, mussels, limpets, and slices of fish. The Cod is particularly fond of slices of Macka K 2 rel, and, in the great fisheries, this is the bait ordinarily used. Pilchards are mostly taken by Drivers at sunrise and sunset. The Minnow forms an excellent bait for Trouts. &c. and it is imitated by an invention, the "artificial minnow." River fish are also particularly fond of the young yellow trout, and this has been imitated by the "Kill-devil," an improvement on which has been invented by Mr. J. Hearder. Many fishes are taken best in Moonlight, glare somewhat deceiving them; a fire on the shore leads many towards it, and, in the tropics, flying-fish often enter the ports of ships, at night, if there be a light within. I believe the reason to be, that, having got within the sphere of the glare, their eyesight is no longer efficient to guide them, just as moths rushı into candles, bats into rooms where there are lights, and sea-birds against the lantern of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Fishes, however, in general are wary, and Mackarels cannot be caught in Moonlight, so that, dark nights are, generally, best for sea fishing. CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. (The nomenclature and arrangement chiefly after Fleming's Those marked with an Asterisk have hitherto been noticed (as regards the British Isles) only off the coasts and in the rivers of the two south-western counties of England. Those species of which there is some doubt of their occurrence with us, have the mark ? prefixed to them. Undetermined species are printed in Italics. CHONDROPTERYGIOUS FISHES. (Fishes in which the bones are cartilaginous and soft.) Petromyzon fluviatilis.-River Lamprey. Lamper Eel. Nine Eyes. Rather common in our rivers through the year, spawning in Spring; also found in the sea from Midsummer to the beginning of the next year. One, while adhering to the neck of a Smelt, was taken in an estuary on December 5th, 1835. They are taken in the sand pits of the Yealm. K 3 Petromyzon marinus.-Sea Lamprey. Not common. One was taken in October, in 1840; I know of no case of its capture in rivers. Petromyzon Planeri.- Planer's Lamprey. (Couch) Cornwall. Ammocœtes branchialis.-Pride. Cornwall. (Couch) Spinax acanthias.-Picked Dog-fish. Common. Scyllium melanostomum.-Eyed Dog-fish. Cornwall. (Couch) Scyllium stellare.-Large-spotted Dog-fish. Common. Often taken by the hook. I saw a young one in Lamna Cornubica.-Porbeagle. Not common. On April 27th, 1836, I saw a specimen which had been taken in a sein; it measured 8 feet; contained 5 young ones. Squalus maximus.- Sail-fish. Sun-fish. Basking Shark. * Squalus spinous.-(Yarrell)-Spinous Shark. During 1836, 1837, and 1838, four specimens were taken. Carcharias vulgaris.-White Shark Carcharias glaucus.-Blue Shark. It follows the Pilchards and Mackarels. A half-grown one, taken June, 1839, is in the Museum of Natural History, at Plymouth. Carcharias vulpes.-Thresher. Rare. * Squalus Rashleighanus. Cornwall. (Couch) *Zygena malleus. · Hammerhead Shark. (Couch) Cornwall. Galeus vulgaris.-Tope. Cornwall. (Couch) Trygon pastinaca.-Sting Ray. Scarce. One taken at Torpedo vulgaris.—Cramp-fish. Raia maculata.- Spotted Ray or Homelyn Ray. Common. * Raia microcellata.-Painted Ray. Devon. (Montagu) Cornwall. (Couch) Raia clavata.-Ray or Thornback. Common. The female or Maiden Ray has large yellow eggs, in March; not very numerous. Raia batis.-Skate. Common. Raia chagrinea.-Long-nosed Skate. Common. Raia oxyrhynchus.-Sharp-nosed Ray. STURGEONS:STURIONIDE. Accipenser Sturio.-Sturgeon. Scarce. in the Tamar in the Spring, 1842. One was taken Three or four small ones were secured off Plymouth in the Summer following. One was taken in a Trawl off the Eddy |