u 



GREENLAND BULLHEAD. 



SEA SCORPION. GREENLAND COTTUS, 



Coitus Grcenlandicus, Proceedings of tlie Natural History Society 



of Dublin, for the Session 1856-7, p. 61. 



" " GuNTHER; Catalogue of Br. Museum, vol. 



ii, p. 161. 



" " Tarkell; Br. Fishes, 2nd. Supplement by 



Sir John Richardson, p. 1. 



This is again a fish which was long confounded with the 

 Common Father -lasher ; and although its greatly superior size 

 might have- been sufficient to raise a doubt in the minds of 

 observers of their being the same, the mistake has been corrected 

 only in recent times. It is a native of the Northern Ocean, 

 and is found on the American as well as on the European 

 side of tlie Atlantic; but further to the south in the former, 

 from the greater degree of cold that usually exists on the 

 eastward than on the westward side of any continent. 



No more than two instances are known of its having been 

 taken in the British Islands; and both of these occurred in 

 Ireland; of which we have the following account in the 

 Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, above 

 referred to. Our figure also is borrowed from the same source, 

 but is closely similar to that which is given by Sir J. Richardson, 

 from an American example : — "It was taken in Dingle harbour. 

 County of Kerry, in the month of February, 1850, when 

 drawing a sean for sand-smelts. Its beautiful and vivid 

 colouring attracted the attention of Mr. B. Hilliard, Agent to 

 the Royal Irish Fisheries Company, who, presuming it to be 

 of rare occurrence, at once forwarded it to Mr. Ancbews, the 

 Manager of the Company." 



