284 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
Length, 29°0. Depth, 3°0. 
Fincrays, D9. 7 SPO Vi 7s Al 685 °C745; 
The fresh-water species of this genus are usually called Burbot and Eel-pout, while the 
name of Ling is attached to those living in the ocean. The specimen which furnished the 
above description was captured in the Hudson river at Lansingburgh, and presented to the 
Albany Institute by Mr. Jacob C. Lansing. I suspect its original habitat is in Lake Cham- 
plain, and that it reaches the Hudson river through the canal. Mr. Z. Thompson informs me 
that he has observed a Burbot in that lake, which agrees neither with the maculosa nor com- 
pressa of Lesueur, and which in all probability is this species. It bears a general resem- 
blance to the Gadus compressus of Lesueur ; but from this it differs in size, and the compa- 
rative length of the dorsal and anal fins. ; 
Nothing is known of its habits. The allied European species is said to resemble the eel 
in its habits, concealing itself under stones, and feeding chiefly at night. In Switzerland, it 
is much esteemed as an article of food. 
THE SPOTTED BURBOT. 
Lora MACULOSA. 
PLATE LIl. FIG. 168. 
Gadus lota. Scuceprrr, loc, cit. Vol. 8, p. 141; PENN. Arct. Zool. Introduction, p. 191. 
Gadus lacustris. Codfish of the Lakes. Mircuirt, Am. Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, p. 244. 
G. maculosus. LEsurur, Ac. Sciences, Vol. 1, p. 83. 
Le Molve tacheté. Ip. Mem. Mus, Vol. 5, p. 159, pl. 16. 
The Methy, Gadus (Lota) maculosus, Ricuarpson, Faun. Bor. Am. Vol. 3, p. 248. 
Fiel-pout, I. maculosa, KirTLAND, Report on the Zoology of Ohio, p. 196. 
Characteristics. Large, dark brown, with lighter spots. Anterior nostrils with a membranous 
filament. Length two feet. 
Description. Body oblong, compressed, anguilliform. Head broad, depressed ; jaws nearly 
equal. Scales minute, rounded and deeply imbedded ; under the lens, concentrically striate. 
Lateral line in a furrow ; arched slightly at its anterior part, thence going off straight. Eyes 
small, oval. Teeth in the jaws, small and recurved, distributed in bands ; similar but smaller 
teeth on the vomer and anterior part of the palatines, also on the pharyngeals. Branchial 
rays seven. The first dorsal small, subtriangular; the first ray short. The second com- 
mences 0°3 behind the first ; long, low, and coterminal with the anal. Pectorals long, pointed ; 
its tips reaching nearly to the base of the first dorsal. Ventrals anterior to the pectorals, long, 
narrow, and ending ina long thin point. Anal long, 
nearly touching the second dorsal, and not quite so near the base of the anal. 
Color. Deep chesnut brown, marbled with lighter spots ; beneath lighter. Pupils black ; 
irides white and golden. Ventrals white. 
subequal. Caudal rounded ; its rays above 
