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from Sitka; Port AI thorp; Port Etches; Port Chatham; <'n<>k Inlet; Popoff Strait and Coal Harbor, Shum- 

 agins; Unalaska; Kyska; Xazan Bay, Atka; Bayof Islands, Adak; Amchitka; Chichagof Harbor and 



Attn. Bean (1884), Fort Tongass an<l Nakat. Nelson (1887), Unalaska. 



Known from Kamchatka t<> San Francisco. Not common in Bering Sea, l>ut appears to l>e 

 abundant from Sitka to Puget Sound. It reaches a length of L8 inches and should be of some value 

 as a food fish. 



Fro. 63.— Enophrya bison Girard). 

 1 24. Enophrys bison (Girard 



This sculpin is quite common south of Killisnoo. No specimens were secured by us north of this 

 point. The collection contains 34 specimens, I tofr.5 inches long, taken ai the following places: Port 

 Townsend; Marrowstone Point; Admiralty Head; Fort Rupert; Kilisut Harbor; Port Uexander; Port 

 Ludlow; Sucia Island; Loring; Yes Hay: Cleveland Passage, and Killisnoo. 



The species was recorded l.y I'.can i |ssl» i from Sitka, ami from Si. Paul. Kodiak Island. 



125. Enophrys claviger it 'uvii-r and Valenciennes PI. \\n fig. I. 

 Recorded by tiilbcrt (1895) fnun station 3233, Bristol Hay. No specimens obtained by us. 



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Fig. 64. — Ceratocottus diceraus (Pallas). 

 126. Ceratocottus diceraus (Pallas). 



Recorded by Bean from Sitka (1882) and Tolstoi Hay and Fort Tongass (1884); by Gilbert fnun 

 Herendeen Bay I L895), and by Jordan ami Gilbert from St. Paul Island 1 1899, as C. lucasi). 



We have 3 specimens, 5.75 to 6.25 inches long, collected at Tareinski, Kamchatka, June 21, and 2 

 specimens each aboui :'. inches lung and each taken from tin- Btomach of a halibut, one at Killisnoo, 

 July 2(5, the other somewhere in Southeast Alaska, locality nut definitely recorded. These specimens 

 indicate that Ceratocottus lucasi Jordan and Gilbert is the young of C. diceraus. 



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