273 [Packard. 



Salmon Bay and ReJ Bay. The Straits of Belle Isle are evidently 

 the northern limits of this genus. 



Pygosteus Cuvieri Brevoort. Syn. Gasterosteus Cuvieri Girard. 

 Gasterosteus Uaculeatus Auct. in part. A large number of specimens 

 from a tidal fresh water spring, near Salmon River, Straits of Belle 

 Isle. 



Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt. Four specimens from Sloop Harbor, 

 collected in July. Until a comparison of these specimens with Euro- 

 pean ones can be made, I have considered them as the A. dubius. 

 They differ from the A. americanus of our coast in having a much 

 longer body. This species is probably the American one considered 

 by some authors as the A. Tobianus. 



Sebastes norvegicus Cuv. Young specimens were dredged in fif- 

 teen fathoms. 



Gijmnacanthus patris Gill. Three specimens from Henley Harbor, 

 collected in July. This is the species described by Dr. H. R. Storer as 

 Acanthocottus patris., and is referred to the genus Gymnacanthus of 

 Swainson by Prof Gill. 



Cyclopterus lumpus Linn. Taken in the Straits of Belle Isle. 



Gadus arenosus Mitchill (Gill.) Eight specimens from Sloop Har- 

 bor, collected in July. From a careful comparison I am satisfied 

 that these specimens are the same species as the common cod of New 

 England, the Gadus and Morrhua americana of authors, and which 

 Prof Gill considers as identical with the Gadus arenosus of Mitchill. 

 Prof Gill also has considered specimens of the cod from Labrador, 

 which he had examined, as identical with our common species. 



It happened that our vessel touched at the different harbors from 

 Mecatina Island in the St. Lawrence Gulf to Hopedale, a distance of 

 over six hundred miles, at times when the cod was successively mak- 

 ing its first appearance. Thus at Gore Island, near Little Mecatina 

 Island, we found the cod was just beginning to be taken by the fish- 

 ermen, June 16. A few were seined July 6th, at Square Island, on 

 the Atlantic coast. July 12th they were evidently breeding, as the 

 females were full of spawn, their livers poor, with little oil in them, and 

 the fish were generally in poor condition. At Tub Island harbor, 

 which is situated on the north side of Hamilton Inlet, the fishery had 

 not begun July 1 7th. Three days later a few were seined at Sloop Har- 

 bor, on the north side of Hamilton or Invuctoke Inlet, while at Straw- 

 berry Harbor, about fifty miles to the northward, they were caught in 

 abundance on the 25th of July. The season was so cold and stormy, 

 owing to the presence of the drift ice in an unusual quantity, and for 

 a much longer period than for many years previous, that the fisheries 

 were almost a failure, scarcely half as many having been taken as 



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