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The inequality of the lobes and the singular shape are not present in the 

 smaller individuals referred to below. 



Mr. Kumlien sent the following notes of color: "Brassy red; belly 

 white J eye red. Fins dark purple brown." A sketch of this specimen 

 by iMr. Kumlien has the caudal lobes equal. 



21747. (481.) Kingwah Fjord, Cumberland Gulf, A. L. Kumlien. D. 13, — , 20. A. 

 16, 21. V. 6. Length 180 millimetres. 



" Found on a seal-hole. Iris sUvery white. Fins dark inu-ple brown. 

 Belly and lower parts silvery. Back brassy olive brown." — Kumlien. 



21748. (857.) Head of Cumberland Gulf, A. L. Kumlien. D. 13,16,20. A. 19,21. 

 P. 19. V. 6. Length 160 miUimetres. 



" Dark brassy red, becoming blue-black on head. Silvery white on 

 belly. Pectorals white. AU the rest of the fins dark pui-ple-blue." — 

 Kumlien. 



21753. (369.) Cumberland Gulf, Jan. 2, 1878, A. L. Kumlien. Length 112 millim. 



"The principal food of Pagomys foetidus at this season." — Kumlien. 



I have followed the lead of Malmgren* and Collettt in employing the 

 name Gadus saida Lepech. Professor Collett has made a direct com- 

 parison of examples of this form of cod from Archangel, Greenland. 

 Spitzbergen, and Xova Zembla, and he believes the polar is of Sabine, 

 1824, Fabricil of Eichardson, 1836, and agilis of Eeinhardt, 1838, to be 

 identical with G. saida. The only difference that he observed is that 

 individuals from the White Sea have, as a rule, darker fins than the 

 rest, which he justly attributes to a difference in the surroundings of 

 the bottom in the different places. They agree in squamation, structure 

 of the teeth, position of the anus, and in every particular of the structure 

 of the body so completely that they cannot possibly be separated.! 



4. Pollachius carbonarius (Linn.) Bon. 



Merlangus carbonarius Eich., Last of the Arctic Voyages, 1855, p. 375. 



Eichardson records the species from Davis Strait. 



5. Gadus morrhua Linn. 



Gadus morrhua Ricn., F. B. A., iii, 1836, p. 243. 



Eichardson states that Davis observed many cod in the possession of 

 the Eskimo who live between Cape Ealeigh and Cumberland Strait. 



* Ofv. Kgl. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1884, p. 531. 



tChristiania Yid. Selsk. F(irh. Xo. 14, 1578, (p. 80). 



;Men iovrigt stenmie de i Skjselbeklsedning, Taudbygning, Stillingen af Anus og 1 

 ethvert Punkt af deres Legemsbygning saa fnldkommen overens, at nogen Adskillels^ 

 mellem deu ikke er mulig. — Colhtt, J. c. 



