150 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



July 17 15.0-17.0 56 specimens. 



July 30 19.0 



July 31 22.5 



August 1 18.7-22.0 



August 11 26.0 



August 14 26 . 5 



August 21 19 . 0-33 .7 39 specimens. 



Young specimens are taken in the seine on the eel-grass at all times 

 of the summer. The following specimens were seined on Cornelius 

 Island, Wickford. May 30, 1910, specimens 75 and 78 mm. 

 long. August 30, 1908, specimen 1 1-5 inches (30 mm.) long; 

 August 20, 1908, two specimens 2 4-5 inches long (72 mm) ; August 

 10, 1908, specimen 4 3-5 inches (115 mm.) long. Specimens two to 

 four inches long are often dredged up with oysters in winter. Goode 

 found at Noank, Connecticut, numerous eggs on stones in water about 

 two feet in depth on July 14th; on July 21st fishes \ inch long were 

 plenty; on September 1, the average was one inch; he considered that 

 toadfishes of three or four inches long were in their second year, and 

 that maturity was reached in the third or fourth year. Adult reaches 

 fifteen inches in length. 

 References: 



1867: Stoker, Hist. Fishes, Mass., 105. 

 1882: Agassiz, Proc. Amer. Acad., XVII, 279. 

 ' 1886: Ryder, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., VI, 4. 

 1890: Ryder, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 42, p. 407. 

 1891: Clapp, Jour. Morph., V, 494. 

 1907: Gill, Life History of the Toadfishes, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 



48, p. 388. 

 1908: Gudger, Habits and Life History of the Toadfish, Bull. Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries, XXVIII, 1908, 1073. 



BLENNIID^. The Blennies. 

 171. Pholis gunnellus (Linneeus). Butter-fish; Rock Eel. 



Geog. Dist.: North Atlantic, Labrador to New York, Norway to France. 

 Common from Woods Hole northward. In Connecticut, reported 

 from Bridgeport and Stonington (Linsley, 1844). Rare in New York 

 waters (Bean, 1903). 

 Habitat: Rocky shores among algae; in deep water in winter. 

 Season in R. I.: Occurring rarely in winter. Probably present in deep 

 water throughout the year. 



