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pale yellowish-brown with three or four large brown blotches on the 

 back extending i)artly on the dorsal fin. 

 D. XIII, 14 ; A. Ill, 7. 



Mallotus villosus (Miill.) Cuv. 



Clupea villosa, Muller, Prod. Zool. Dan., 1777, p. 245. 



Mallotus villosus, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vi, 1866, p. 170; Richard- 

 son, F. B. A., iii, 1836, p. 187. 



34385. Eight examples of this species, 7 males and 1 female, were ob- 

 tained at Godhavn, Greenland. The males are all conspicuous by the 

 presence of the large lanceolate lateral scales, and the compressed base 

 of the anal fin. The length of the head is contained 4^ to 4f times the 

 depth, 6 to 7J times in the total length to the origin of the caudal fin. 

 The snout is contained 3J times, and the greatest diameter of the eye 

 4 to 4^ times in the length of the head. 



D. 13-14 ; A. 20-22; P. 20. 



The capelin are caught in numbers by the natives and dried, forming 

 part of the winter's supply of food. 



8. Salvelinus stagnalis (Fabr. ) Gill & Jor. 



Salmo stagnalis Fabricius, Fauna Grcenlandica, 1780, p. 175. 



Salmo alipes Richardson, Fauna Bor. America. 1836, p. 169, pi. 81 and 86, 



fig. 1. 

 Salmo alipes Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vi, 1866, p. 149. 

 Salvelinus s/a^7iaZis Jordan & Gilbert, Synop. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 321. 



34384. In July, 1883, three specimens of the genus Salvelinus^ two 

 males and one female, were obtained from the native Esquimaux at the 

 settlement of Godhavn, Disco Island, in Western Greenland. The fish 

 were caught at the mouth of a mountain stream emptying into the 

 sea near the settlement. They vary in total length from 15 to 17 

 inches. 



Although it is doubtful whether this species is the Salmo stagnalis of 

 Fabricius, yet it agrees partly with his description and very closely 

 with Dr. Richardson's description of Salmo alipes, whicJi is probably 

 identical with S. stagnalis. It differs from ^S'. carpio Fabricius in being 

 more elongate and in the absence of the black quadrate spots mentioned 

 in his description. 



The examples under consideration were compared with notes on the 

 types of Salmo naresi Giiuther, made by Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, in the 

 British Museum, and the most prominent points of difference noticed 

 were the following : In S. naresi (1) the eye is very much larger, (2) the 

 snout is much shorter, (3) the maxilla does not extend beyond the pos- 

 terior margin of the eye, (4) the gill-rakers are longer and more numer- 

 ous. In other respects the resemblance between the two species is 

 close. 



