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or possibly still farther north. It is larger than the 

 grey gurnard, attaining now and then a length of one and 

 a half, or it may be two feet. It is said to spawn in July. 

 " The young of this species, so far as I am aware," 

 Nilsson remarks, " have never been found. They are 

 probably dissimilar in appearance to the adults, and a 

 description of them has perhaps been given under some 

 other designation." 



M. Malm describes, in the Transactions of " Scandi- 

 navian Naturalists," 1865, a new species of Trigla, under 

 the name of T. nigripes. Malm — most nearly allied, he 

 says, to T. poeciloptera, Cuv. & Val., and T. lineata, Linn., 

 Yarrell — of which only one specimen has been found in 

 the Bohus Skiirgard. 



The Cotttis poecilopus. Heck. {Sten-Simpa med flackiga 

 Bnkfenor, or, stone-simpa with spotted ventrals, Sw.), 

 which is so like the C. Gohio, or River Bull-head, as to 

 be hard to distinguish, was unknown on the western 

 coast ; but specimens have occasionally been taken in the 

 eastern Skiirgard, near Stockholm, where the water is 

 brackish. Professor Sundevall, who was the tirst, I 

 believe, to identify this fish in the Baltic, imagines it to 

 be not uncommon in that sea. 



The Sea-Scorpion, or Father- Lasher, of Jenyns [not 

 Yarrell] {Ulh, Hot-Simpa, Sw.; Almimlelig {i.e. common) 

 Tllk, Dan. ; Cottiis Scorpius, Linn.), is about the most 

 common of the genus in the waters of the Peninsula. On 

 the eastern coast it is found as high up as the Gulf of 

 Bothnia, and on the western as far as North Cape. It is 

 confined solely to salt water, and would seem to be some- 

 what migratory in its habits. For years together these 

 fish abound in certain localities, when all at once their 

 numbers very greatly decrease, and it may not be until 

 after the lapse of a long period that they revisit their old 

 haunts. In the Baltic and Cattegat the usual length of 



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