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color in spirits is a uniform dark brown, with numerous pale round spots 

 and blotches on the body and the fins. Blind side white. 



D. 102 ; A. 81 ; Gill-rakers, 8. 



Towards the latter part of August the catch of the halibut began at 

 Godhavn. The natives ventured far out into the bay in their kayaks 

 to fish for them in deep water. 



When a large fish is caught it is cut up into conveniently-sized i)ieces 

 for stowage in the kayak. At one time a party of kayakers returning 

 from Christianshaab, about 30 miles from Godhavn, brought with them 

 pieces of halibut, to judge from which the fish itself must have weighed 

 as much as 80 or 100 pounds. 



Boreogadus saida (Lepech.) Bean. 



Gadus saida Lepechin, Nov. Corum. Ac. Scien. Petrop., 1774, p. 512; Gunther 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 1862, p. 337 ; Collett, Den uorske Nordh.-Exped., 

 Fiske, 1880, p. 126, pi. iv, fig. 33. 



Gailus fabricii Eichardson, F. B. A., 1836, p. 245 ,* GtJNTHER, ojj. cit., iv, 1862, 

 p. 335. 



Boreogadus said:! Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns., xv, p. 108. 



34185. Two young specimens 110 to 122 millimeters long were picked 

 up on the shore of the Waigatt channel, Disco Island, August 26, 1883. 



In these small examples the lower jaw projects beyond the upper by 

 2 millimeters and the inequality of the caudal lobes mentioned by Dr. 

 Theo. Gill, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1863, p. 233, is scarcely notice- 

 able. The length of the head is contained 3f times, and the greatest 

 depth of the body 6 J times in the length to the caudal base. The eye 

 is as long as the snout, 3f times in the length of the head. The maxilla 

 reaches to below the middle of the eye, and is two-fifths as long as the 

 head. The length of the mandible is contained If times, that of the 

 interorbital width 4- times, that of the pectoral fin 1^ times, and that of 

 the ventral fin 1^ times in the length of the head. The back is yellow- 

 ish-brown, with a bluish tinge; the belly is silvery white. The head, 

 body, and fins are minutely dotted with black. The lips, dorsal, pec- 

 toral, and caudal fins are black, and the tips of the anal fins are dusky. 



D. 12, 15, 21 ; A. 16 to 20, 21 ; Gill-rakers 9 + 30. 



Gadus morrhua Linn. 



Gadvs morrhua Linne. Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 436 ; Richardson, F. B. A , iii, 

 1836, p. 243; GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 1862, p. 328. 



28627. Davis Straits. K. P. Scudder. Length, 17 inches. 



28628. Holsteiuburg, Greenland, i^. P. Scudder. Length, 11 inches. 

 Color, olive-brown above ; belly, white. In the larger example from 



Davis Straits the sides are marbled with yellowish, and the fins are 

 mottled with brown and yellow ; lateral line, white ; fins, dusky ; dorsal 

 and anal fins, edged with white. 



