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J. M. Jones reported specimens taken from the stomachs of 

 codfish (N. y. Inst. Nat. Sc, Vol. V. 1879), and the writer saw 

 one in the McGill museum, Montreal, from Metis, P. Q. In 

 February, 1898, an alligator fish Si inches long, was taken in a 

 smelt bag-net in the Miramichi Bay and donated to the Mir- 

 amichi Natural History Association by J. T. Jellett of Loggieville. 



6. Liparis lineata (Lepechin) Kroyer. Sea Snail. 



This is another denizen of high northern latitudes which 

 strays southwards in the Arctic currents, and was found by Mr. 

 Moses on the beach at North Head, Grand Manan, in 1896. The 

 common name has reference to its sleek, slippery skin, which 

 is very thin and loosely attached. 



In some respects it is intermediate between the Lump-sucker 

 (Cyclopterus) and the Sculpin (Coitus); having like the former 

 the ventral fins thoracic and converted into a sucking disc, by 

 means of which it can adhere to stones or fioating bodies; while 

 skeletally and in the character and disposition of the remaining 

 fins it resembles the latter. 



In his ''Fishes of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Ba}' of 

 Fundy,"' 1865, Prof. Gill expressed his doubts regarding its 

 occurrence in the Bay of Fundy, and eight years later in the 

 "Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America" he 

 could only assign it a general range from the Polar regions to 

 Cape Cod. J. M. Jones, in the publication referred to above, re- 

 ported it as occurring on the coast of Nova Scotia. It never ex- 

 ceeds five inches in length. 



7. Phycis tenuis Mitchill. White hake. 



Small specimens of this species are taken in smelt bag-nets 

 in the Miramichi Bay, along with the closely allied form, the 

 "Squirrel Hake." 



8. Pleuronectes glaber, Storer. Smooth Flounder. 



This flat-fish is not uncomnKjn in Miramichi Bay and Bay 

 des Chaleurs in the winter, being taken in bag-nets with the more 

 common and higbh' prized P. nmericanus ^^'albaum. It rarely 

 exceeds eignt inches in length; the scales are small, smooth and 

 well embedded in the skin; and the general colour of the u|)per 



