Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk

Note 63 — NOTES ON CERTAIN FISHES AND MARINE ANIMALS FOUND IN NORFOLK.

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The Common Mullet I take to be the Grey Mullet (Mugil capito), which is at times plentiful on our coast, coming into Breydon and the mouths of the rivers, but the Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus) is far less frequently met with. In his third letter to Merrett, Browne says, "There is of them maior and minor," the latter probably being the variety known as the Surmullet, by far the most frequently met with here.

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