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below, covering the chest and extending in a median line to ventral. On each side of this median 

 line and extending to the olive of sides is a large patch of golden orange, which is very bright 

 in life. The lower snrface of caudal peduncle is crossed by 4 or 5 white bars, or rather irregular 

 blotches. The under surface of head is white, variegated with small dots and spots of dark-brown^ 

 which extend to the white of chest. One spot covers the isthmus, and there is one in front of base 

 of each ventral. The bi-anchials are covered with these dark punctulations. The pectorals are 

 purplish-brown, with irregular bars of very pale golden or greenish yellow. The ventrals are of a 

 fleshy tint with several satiny white spots. The anal is olive-brown, fleshy-shaded toward base^.. 

 and crossed by a row of golden spots along tips of membrane, and a golden-yellow bar from 

 anterior ray, nearly to last, through the middle. The last ray and membrane white at tip and 

 base and yellow between. 



Tail very dark brown with a slight golden tiut, with a row of transparent spots across middle- 

 and a few near base. 



First dorsal very dark brown, with two median, transparent spots and the last two membranes 

 dull golden, dark spotted. Second dorsal dark-brownish, with a few small golden spots scattered 

 irregularly over the surface. 



•M'JiS. (-29. ) Saint Michaels, July '24, 1877. 



Along each side of the abdomen is a band of bright golden, with a pale yellowish tint. The 

 colors are all bright. 



3-2929. (80.) Saint Michaels, summer, 1877. 



32936. (79.) Saint Michaels, summer, 1877. 



32937. (45.) Saint Michaels, November 7, 1877. 



Mottled Sculpin. — Length 8 inches. Norton Sound. Entire dorsal surface of head and body 

 presenting a grayish color, caused by a marbling formed of fine or minute whitish spots and retic- 

 ulating lines, which are scattered profusely over the dull olive-brown on the head, and olive- 

 grayish or leaden on the back and surface of caudal peduncle. Lower surface of head very pale, 

 yellow, tinted with numerous faint and minute punctulations of dark. Chest and throat colorless,, 

 sending an arm of white upward and sliglitly inclined backward behind the pectorals. In some 

 cases this arm is divided about midway in its length, forming an elongated spot iu place of its upper 

 half. Behind these spots or arms of white on the sides and under surface of abdomen are other 

 large irregular spots, sometimes uniting and varying much in size and shape, but always well 

 marked and usually 3 or -I on each side, the last two extending upward from near the vent or just 

 anteriorly to it. Obliquely above and behind the vent on caudal peduncle are a few small ani 

 irregularly placed white spots. 



3294 \ (120.) Saint Michaels, May 2, 1876. 



The pattern of fin and side coloration varies considerably in shade and outline. The pinkish 

 on tail is absent on this specimen, but the anterior 5 or G long rays of second dorsal have the outer 

 two-thirds deep crimson red. 



CoTTUS QUADRicoRNis Liuu. Four-spined Sculpiu. (Plate XVII, Fig. 2.) 



32962. (259.) Saint Michaels, April 26, 1880. 



32964. (269.) Saint Michaels, July, 1880. 



32965. (258.) Saint Michaels, April 26, 1880. 



Sculpin found over clay beds in bottom of the canal in about 1 fathom of water. TJuiforni 

 dull olive-green on entire upper surface, which has a slight mottled appearance. Dorsal and 

 caudal fins irregularly mottled with dark on the translucent membrane, though the first dorsal 

 is uniformly colorless, except shading near base. Mingling with the dark mottling on second 

 dorsal and tail is an irregular mottling in less abundance of dull pale gamboge-yellowish, the 

 latter color most marked on the rays. Ventral surface dull livid white. Pectorals crossed with 

 5 irregular vertical zones of blackish, becoming regularly narrower from the broad marginal band 

 to the line like basal one. These zones are separated by narrow bars of gamboge-yellowish, rather 

 dull on upper border and brightening to a bright yellow, entirely occupying the 4 inferior rays and 

 lower edge of fin. Ventrals colorless. Anal has a pale dull and very iiTegular mottling of 

 brownish and yellowi.sh. 



