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all, it is pei'liaps doubtful if this tish, as a separate species, 

 really exists, for Dr. Gunther, to whom I have submitted 

 the above drawing, taken from the Transactions of the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 1844, Eig. 2, 

 pronounces it to be no other tliau the young of the 

 Common Angler. 



The Batruclnis borealis, Nilss., which in many respects 

 resembles the Common Angler (and which Nilsson surmises 

 maybe identical with the Gadas Tan, Bloch ; Batrachus 

 Conspicillum, Valenc), has been added to the Scandinavian 

 fauna from a single specimen, eight inches in length, 

 said to have been taken in the Cattegat near Kullen. 

 But it has lately been questioned whether this fish be 

 really entitled to this distinction, it being reported that 

 the specimen alluded to, now in the Lund Museum, instead 

 of having been captured on the Swedish coast, was 

 purchased from the captain of an American ship ! 



THE CHIRONECTES ARCTICUS. 



The Chironectes arcticus, von Diiben & Koren. Onlji 

 a single specimen of this fish, and tliat less than two 

 inches in length, has as yet been met with off the Scan- 



