86 BOARD OF AGRICULTDEE. 



Sub-class Teleostei. ScoRPENOiDiE. 



Family Scorpenoidj;;, Sivainson. Sub-family Scorpenin^, Bona. 



Char. Body, large, and more or less spinous. Some genera 

 exhibit flaps or membranous appendages ; in others there are scales 

 all over the head, as also to the tips of the snout and along the 

 jaws. 



Head. There are seven branchial rays in all, and the gill open- 

 ings are continuous under the throat. Gills, three and a half on 

 either side, the fourth having but one branchial comb developed, 

 consequently the last branchial split does not exist. 



Fins. The dorsal is unique, the spinous portion combining 

 closely with the soft. 



Genus Sebastes, Cuv. 



Gen. Chak. Body rather short and contracted. Head largely developed ; upper 

 surface covered with scales, and with or without spines. Mouth large ; eyes large ; 

 inferior jaw the longest ; velvet or cardlike teeth upon the premaxillaries, dentaries, 

 the front of the vomer and the palatines. Surface of the tongue smooth ; spines on 

 the preopercle and opercle. Gill openings continuous under the throat. Branchi- 

 ostegal rays seven on either side. Dorsal fins united at base and resemble one fin. 

 Caudal posteriorly subcrescentic, or concave. Insertion of ventrals posterior to the 

 pectorals. Body covered with well developed pectinated scales, opercular apparatus, 

 cheek and jaws, and also over portion of the fins. 



Sebastes Norvegica, Cuv. 

 Norway Haddock, Red Sea Perch, Rose Fish, Snapper, Hemdurgan. 



This fish is more abundant in the northen portion of our waters 

 than in the southern, and is still more plenty on the shores of 

 Newfoundland. Not having an opportunity to examine a good 

 specimen, I here copy a part of Storer's description of it. 



Color. In the recent fish the entire body, together with the fins 

 is of a beantiful bright red, with the exception of a blotch upon the 

 posterior portion of the operculum. After death the color partially 

 disappears upon the throat and abdomen, and the space between 

 the ventrals becomes nearly white, and at the posterior base of the 

 soft portion of the dorsal a dull blotch is observed. Pupils black, 

 iris yellow. 



Description. Body oblong, compressed, covered with small 

 rough scales. Head flattened above between the eyes and upon the 

 occiput. The operculum is armed with three spines, one pointing 



