144 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



August 14, 1906, three specimens were taken in seine at Sauga Point, 

 and two specimens were taken in a seine on August 8, 1906, at Cornelius 

 Island. 



Reproduction: Spawns in winter and spring; the eggs at that time 

 may be seen sticking to nets and seaweed. 



Food: Bottom invertebrates; annelids, copepods, shrimp, young floun- 

 ders. 



Size: Maximum, six to eight inches. 



158. Myoxocephalus groenlandicus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Daddy 



Sculpin; Sculpin. 



Geog. Dist.: New York to Greenland. Common on whole New England 

 coast. 



Season in R. I.: Taken in winter from October to March, but not so 

 common as the next species. Not often found in Narragansett Bay. 



Reproduction: Spawns in November and December. In the North 

 Sea this species spawns from December to February; the eggs are laid 

 in clumps at moderate depths and are 1-12 inch (1.5 to mm.) in diame- 

 ter, and have numerous small globules. The egg hatches in about 

 five weeks, when the larva is about J inch long (7.4 to S.6 mm.) The 

 eggs are laid in a nest made from sea- weed and pebbles and are guarded 

 by the male. 



Food: Fishes, Crustacea, worms. 



Size: Maximum, 25 inches. 



References: 



1882: Agassiz, Proc. Amer. Acad. XVII, 285. 



1890: McIntosh and Prince, Trans. Roy Soc, Edinburgh, 35, 675. 



1896: McIntosh, Report, Fishery Board, Scotland, 14, 181. 



1897: McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 122. 



1905: Gill, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., XLVII, 348. 



1905: Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 4, 55. 



159. Myoxocephalus OCtodecimspinosus (Mitchill). Eighteen-spined Scul- 



pin; Sad pin. 



Geog. Dist.: Labrador to Virginia, common about Cape Cod. 



Season in R. I.: Common in winter from October to April. In Narra- 

 gansett Bay often taken in winter in beam-trawls with flatfish. Much 

 more common in Narragansett Bay than M. groenlandicus. April 30, 

 1906, a specimen was taken in Sand Blow trap, Conanicut Island, and 

 October 29, 1905, a specimen was taken in Dutch Island trap. 



