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it has been taken at Annisquam, at the mouth of the Saco River, and repeatedly in 

 the neighborhood of Casco Bay. Here it appears so regular (if rare) a member of 

 the local fish fauna that Dr. W. C. Kendall saw more than 25 taken from the traps 

 near Small Point between July 4 and 14 in 1896, and the local fishermen were familiar 

 with it; but the only record east of Small Point is for a single specimen caught at 

 Campobello Island in the mouth of the Bay of Fundy in August, 1911. Being a 

 shoal-water fish, it is confined to a narrow belt along the shores of the Gulf, but its 



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Fig. 170. — Sea robin {Prionotus caroUnus) 

 a. Adult, i. Egg. c, Larva, just hatched, 2.8 millimeters, i, Fry, 9 millimeters. 



range extends eastward across the south channel to Georges Bank, where the 

 trawlers picked up a few (never more than a dozen or two on a trip) during the 

 summer of 1913. Probably the Eastern Channel is its easterly limit, for "robins" 

 are not known on Browns Bank or off the west Nova Scotian coast. In summer the 

 depth range of the " robin " is from close below tide mark do\vn to 30 or 40 fathoms — 

 perhaps deeper. 



