446 Pareioplitas, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 



According to Fabricius, Myoxocephalus grcenland-icus is 

 "abundant in all the bays and inlets of Greenland, but prefers a 

 stony coast clothed with seaweed. It approaches the shore in 



FIG. 391. California Miller's Thumb, Cottus gulosus Girard. McCloud River.Cal. 

 (Photograph by Cloudsley Rutter.) 



spring and departs in winter. It is very voracious, preying on 

 everything that comes in its way and pursuing incessantly the 

 smaller fish, not sparing the young of its own species, and devour- 

 ing Crustacea and worms. It is very active and bold, but does 

 not come to the surface unless it be led thither in pursuit of 



FIG. 392. Pribilof Sculpin, Myoxocephalus niger (Bean). 



Bering Sea. 



St. Paul Island, 



other fish. It spawns in December and January and deposits 

 its red-colored roe on the seaweed. It is easily taken with a 

 bait, and constitutes the daily food of the Greenlanders, who 

 are very fond of it. They eat the roe raw." 



The little sculpin, or grubby, of the New England coast is 

 Myoxocephalus aneus, and the larger eighteen-spined sculpin is 

 Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus. Still more numerous and 



