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No. IV. 



ICHTHYOLOGY. 1 



By Albert Gunther, M.A., Ph. D., M.D., F.R.S. 



Ten species of fishes were collected between lat. 78° and 

 83° N., by the naturalists of the Arctic Expedition of 1875- 

 76, and submitted to me for determination. 



1. Cottus quadricornis (Z.) — A young specimen, four 

 inches long, was found dead by Mr. Egerton on the beach of 

 Dumbell Harbour (lat. 82° 30' N.) No other salt-water fish 

 is known at present to have been found at a higher latitude. 

 In this young specimen the nuchal tubercles are only indi- 

 cated ; but having compared it with a specimen obtained on 

 the English coast, another from Lake Wettern, and with two 

 from Sir J. Eichardson's collection (the locality of which is 

 not known, but which most probably were given to him by 

 one of the previous Arctic explorers), I have no doubt as to 

 their specific identity. Dr. Liitken has excluded this species 

 from his list of Greenland fishes ('Arctic Manual,' p. 116). 



2. Icelus HAMATUS (Kroyer). — Previously known from 

 Spitsbergen and Greenland, it seems to be one of the most 

 common fishes in the latitudes between 80° and 82°. Two 

 specimens were obtained at Discovery Bay (81° 44/ N.), 

 several at Franklin Pierce Bay (in fifteen fathoms), and seven 

 at Cape Napoleon. All these specimens were caught in the 

 month of August, and were ready for spawning. 



3. Triglops pingelii (Reinh.) — No specimens of this 

 fish were previously in the national collection. It appears to 



1 Abridged from 'Proc. Zool. Soc.,' 1877, pp. 293-295, 475-476. 



