xlviii NATURAL HISTORY. 



Cuvier,* subgenus Les Fierasfers, and for the same reason to the second subgenus 

 of Lacepcde,t distinguished by the absence of " harbillons aux muchoires.'''' 



A single individual of this very rare species, not exceeding four inches in length, 

 was ejected from the stomach of a glaucous gull, shot by us near Felix Harbour. It 

 agreed sufficiently well with the description above quoted. 



4.— OPHIDIUM VIRIDE. 



OPIIIDIUM VIRIDE.— fot; f««n. Grofn/.— p. 141. 



Ross, App. to Parry's 3d Voyage — p. 110. 

 OPHIDIUM UNERNAK — iafe/)e(/e, Hist. Nat. des Poissons—vol ii., p. 282. 



Like the preceding species, was but rarely met with by us ; a few individuals were 

 obtained from among the patches of seaweed off the west coast of Greenland, in July, 

 1 829, agreeing very exactly with the excellent description of Otho Fabricius, loc. cit. 



5.— GADUS MORHUA {Common Codfish). 



GADUS MORHUA.— CuK .- Reg. Jnim.—vo}. ii., p. 330. Tetede la Afon,e— pi. 10. 

 Lacepide, Hist. Nat. des Poissons—vo\. ii., p. 369, pi. 10, fig. 1. 



0-wuk. — Esquimaux of Boothia. 



Becalmed off the west coast of Greenland, in latitude 66i° N, a number of very 

 fine codfish were caught by our crew. The bank on which they were found, consists 

 of coarse sand, broken shells, and small stones, with from eighteen to thirty fathoms 

 water over it. 



* Rtgne Animal— vol. ii., p. 359. 



t Ilistoire Naturelle des Poissons — vol. li., p. 270. 



