16 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



13.— FISTULARILLXE. 



Fistularia taeaccaria Linn. — Tobacco trumpet -fish ; unarmed 

 trumpet- fish. 



Cape Cod to Florida. (Occasional 5 specimens obtained at New 

 York.; 



14.— GASTEROSTEIDiE. 



Apeltes quadracus (Mitch.) Brew — Four-spLned stickle-back. 



New Brunswick to Florida. 

 Gasterosteus ACULEATUS Linn. — Common stickle-back. 



Greenland to Newfoundland (at least). 

 Gasterosteus biaculeatus Shaw. (d. s.) — Two-spined stickle-back. 



Newfoundland and Labrador. 

 Gasterosteus niger Cuv. and Val. (d. s.) — Black stickle-back. 



Newfoundland. 

 Gasterosteus noveboracensis Cuv. and Val. (d. s.) — New York, 

 stickle- back. 



New Brunswick to Cape Hatteras. 

 Pygosteus occidentalis (Cuv. and Val.) Brevoort. — Ten-spined 

 stickle-back. 



Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. 



15.— SOLEID.E. 



Plagusia plagiusa (Linn.) Gill. (d. ® s.)— Long sole. 



Cape Hatteras to Florida. 

 Achirus ltneatus (Linn.) Cuv. — American sole; calico; hog-choker 

 (New Jersey) ; coverclip (New Jersey) ; spotted sole (Massachusetts Bay}i 



Cape Cod to Florida. 



1G.— PLEURONECTID^. 



Euchalarodus Putnami Gill. — Putnam's flat-fish. 



Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. (Found only in Salem Harbor, Mass.) 

 Pseudopleuronectes americanus (Walb.) Gill. — Common flounder, 

 winter-flounder; mud dab (Massachusetts liny); sole (New York.) 



Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras. 

 Myzopsetta eerruginea (Storer) Gill. — Rusty dab; sand dab (Maine). 



Nova Scotia to Cape Cod. 

 Limanda eostrata (H. R. Storer) Gill. — American dab. 



Labrador. 

 Pleuronectes Glaber (Storer) Gill. — Smooth plaice; smooth back. 



Massachusetts to Maine. 

 Glyptocephalus acadianus Gill. — Long dab. 



Maine. 



