26 JANUARY 1934, Page 17

* * * * A Sussex Fish A quaint point

or two in ichthyology—or architectural ichthyology—is discussed in the wholly admirable Sussex County Magazine, issued monthly from 4 Pevensey Road, Eastbourne. The weathercock on Southover Church, as on Piddinghoe, represents a fishy emblem that even the best naturalists have mistaken. Captain Dannreuther, famous as an entomologist, has described it as a shark and a dog fish, and Kipling as a " begilded dolphin " (which is, of course, not fish, but mammal). It is, in fact, a salmon trout, as proved (according to one correspondent) by its typical dorsal fin. Is the fish there as the old Christian symbol (I. CH. TH. US), or as compliment to the Sussex Ouse, which is a better salmon