40 T-IFK OF MOSES HENRY PERLEY. 



as the 'Rock Cod,' which \v:is elevated to specific rank by Storer 

 Mitchell, and others; and, occurring on our coasts, was very 

 naturally assigned a place in our author's list. Moreover Prof. 

 Gill has shown that the little 'Sand Dab,' Platessa 'lAtssilht, is the 

 young of the common flounder, P. pinna Storer, and it must 

 therefore be removed from the catalogue of provincial tishes. 

 Discarding then tnese five forms, there remain fifty-seven well 

 established species representing the ichthyological labours of 

 Moses H. Perley."* 



♦Quoted from "History of the Ichthyology of New Brunswick" by the writer; 

 Bull. XIII, Natural History Society, New Brunswick, 1885. 



