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position in the shallow water even when roughly touched with a 

 boat-hook. It acts as a perfect scavenger at the fish-curing 

 stations, gorging itself with the refuse thrown into the sea. Al- 

 though somewhat repulsive in appearance and mode of life, it is 

 remarkable for the beauty of its colors, which, in some specimens, 

 are highly brilliant. The Rev. J. Ambrose informs me that a 

 deep red-colored variety is found at St. Margaret's Bay, and is 

 known to the fishermen under the name of ' deep-water sculpin.' 

 The sculpin is very tenacious of life, existing for some time after 

 removal from its native element. 



Norway Haddock. — Sehastes Nbrvegicus. 



Sebastes Xorvegicus Cuv. et Val., iv., p. 327, pi. 87. 



" " Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, i, p. 87. 



'• " Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer., p. 52. 



" Storer, Fishes of Mass., p. 26. 



" " -De Kay, p. 60, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



" " Gunth., Cat. Fishes, ii, p. 95. 



Perca marina Pennant, Brit. Zool., iii, p. 226. 



Holocentrus Norvegicus Lacep., iv, p. 390. 



This beautiful fish, which vies in brilliancy of color with the 

 gaudy-coated denizens of the tropical seas, is by no means uncommon 

 on our coast during winter and summer. It occurs more frequently, 

 perhaps, during the winter season. As the minute young has been 

 procured from the stomach of a cod caught in the vicinity of 

 Halifax, it is more than probable that it breeds with us. When 

 fishing for cod, it is taken on the banks several miles from shore, 

 and is known in the Halifax market as the l John-a-Dory,' where 

 it sells at the rate of two pence sterling each, but is never ex- 

 hibited for sale in any quantity. The Greenland and Arctic seas 

 appear to be the proper habitat of this species. I have procured 

 the opercular spines from the Kjockkenmoedding on our Atlantic 

 «oast. 



Spotted Wrymouth. — Cryptacanthodes maculatus. 



Cryptacanthodes maculatus Storer, Fishes of Mass., p. 28. 



" Gunth., Cat. Fishes, iii, p. 291. 



A fine example of this rare fish was taken while swimming with 

 its head out of water near the Commercial Wharf, Halifax, on the 

 14th of June 1860, and was presented to me by Andrew Downs 

 Esq. It was perfectly white in color, and had the exact appear- 

 ance of a cast in plaster of Paris. This white color changed — after 

 it had been some time in spirits — to a light brown about the body, 

 Yol. II. i no. 2. 



