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Figure 21. — Pogie, Lebius superciliosus. The flesh may be vivid green or 



white. Attu Island, August 16, 1938. 



with irregular spots of light tan. Inside of mouth and under jaw is 

 light green; flesh and viscera are green. Another specimen: 

 back and sides are brownish olive mottled with black, and are 

 spotted with bluish green; under-parts are yellowish; flesh is 

 white. On many specimens, the skin is a rich dark red, almost 

 matching the fronds of kelp, among which the fish swim. The vivid 

 green flesh of the majority of specimens is a startling sight to a 

 person seeing it for the first time. Dr. L. P. Schultz says that the 

 presence, or absence, of green color throughout the flesh is not, 

 to the best of his knowledge, a sex character. The flesh color is 

 sometimes more of a blue than a green. O. J. Murie reports that 

 the fish comes up to the shallow water along the beach at night 

 and makes a popping noise like kelp bladders exploding. The fish 

 was found in nests of the bald eagle on several occasions, suggest- 

 ing that it is a shoal-water species. 



Lepidopsetta bilineata, was called "flounder" on one occasion 

 and "sole" on another, by the same fisherman. It swims with its 

 right side up. Evermann and Goldsborough (1907) state that 

 the flounder is widely distributed and that it takes the hook 

 readily. 



Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus was taken on four islands. 

 This is said to be a large sculpin, but we have no field notes on it. 



All five species of Northeast Pacific salmon were collected in the 

 Aleutians, the humpback and the silver salmon were found most 

 frequently : 



