154 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
Color. This is extremely fugacious. I was fortunate in being able to have a drawing made 
from a living specimen, caught near my house, on the northern coast of Long Island. The 
general color, as will be seen by reference to the plate, is greyish, with a series of oval ver- 
tical dusky rings along the sides. Abdomen greyish white, tinged with yellow. Inides 
white. Dorsal fin grey, with fourteen black vertical distant stripes. Pectorals and caudal 
yellow. Anal fin greenish grey, with alternate darker stripes. j 
Length, 4°5. Depth, 0:5. 
Hin Tays, -<<--<--s= D: 78: BP. 125, Vols Alte. 365 (C216 4 
In another specimen, D. 75; P. 11; Vie AL 224 0b iC 2018t 
This pretty little species is frequently found among rocks along the sea-shore, and in the 
mud. It swims with great rapidity, although its usual habit is that of creeping slowly among 
rocks, in which it is probably assisted by its spiny ventrals. It abounds in Robyn’s reef in 
the harbor of New-York. The description given by Mitchill, incomplete as it is, I have 
reason to know, applies to our species. It resembles the G. vulgaris of Yarrel (Vol. 1, p. 
239); but from the above description, is evidently distinct from that species. Its present 
known limits are from Massachusetts to New-York, but it probably ranges still farther north. 
(EXTRA-LIMITAL,) 
G. vulgaris. (Ricuarpson, F. B. A. Fishes, Vol. 1, p. 91.) Dorsal united to the caudal fin; ten 
or twelve dark spots along the base of the dorsal. Length seven to twelve inches. Northern Coast. 
