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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Iceland and Glaucous Gulls off the Dublin Coast.?September 5, 1867. Saw a perfectly adult Iceland gull: it slill had the white head of summer. November 19, 1867. An Iceland gull passed me in cream-coloured plumage. March 8, 1868. Iceland pull in cream-coloured plumage. December 13, 1867. An adult glaucous gull passed me lo-day. In tbe beginning of 1868 I also noticed a few young birds of this fine species.?H. Blake-Knox; September?, 1868. Allice Shad at St. Ives.?The allice shad was taken yesterday off St. Ives. The fish is not of common occurrence in our western seas.? Thomas Cornish; Penzance, September 19, 1868. Shorl-finncd Tunny (Thynnus brachypterus) at Penzance.?The specimen was 8fj inches over all. It had not so many fin-rays in the first dorsal as Mr. Couch's figure and letter-press show, and it bad two short free soft rays between the first and second dorsals. The fish was taken in the pilchard drift-nets on the 20th of August. ?Id. Saury Pike or Skipper at Penzance.?A specimen of the Saury pike or skipper (Scomberesox Saurus, Yarrell) leaped of its own accord on board a fishing-boat, about two miles off (he Black Head, near Falmouth, on Thursday night. There is nothing remarkable in the specimen. The fish, which is a surface-swimmer, is mentioned as having been commonly captured when the pilchard drift-nets fished shoal, but now they fish deep it but rarely occurs. This is the first specimen I have seen. I had the fish dressed, and found it not agreeable as food: the flesh was very white, remarkable for an absence of anything like flake, and had a slight and disagreeable sour flavour.? Id.; October 3, 1868. Bream in the Lea.?Bream are a curious fish, and appear here and there where least expected; but, however erratic may be the sudden congregations of these...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217143745 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217143741 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $29.13 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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