



60 Catalogue of the Fishes of Connecticut. 



*]6. Cottus GrcBnlandicus, Cuv., Greenland Sculpin, Long 



Island Sound. 

 *17. Cottus seneus, Mitchill, Brown Bullhead, Bridgeport. 

 •18. Cottus cognatus, Richardson, (viscosus of Haldeman,) 



Star-gazer, Manchester. 

 *19. Cottus variabilis, Ay res, Various-colored Bullhead, Long 



Island Sound. 

 *20. Aspidophoroides monopterygius, Cuv., Bullhead, Masssa- 



chusetts. 



*21. Hemitripterus Americanus, Gmelin, Sea Raven, Ston- 



ington. 

 *22. Scorpena bufo, Richardson, Sea Scorpion, Stratford. 

 23. Sebastes Norvegicus, Cuv., Norway Haddock, Massachu- 



setts and New York. 



Wry 



eport 



*25. Gasterosteus biaculeatus, Mitchill, Two-spined Stickle- 



back, Stratford. 



York 



back, Stratford. 



*16. The Greenland sculpin has been taken in Long Island Sound, and Dr. Storer 

 states that it is common along the coast of Massachusetts. 



*17. This brown bullhead I took at Bridgeport harbor a short time Bince, in com- 

 pany with flat fish, (Platessa plana.) 



*18. The C. cognatus of Richardson, which is the Uranidea quiescens 7 star-gazer 

 of Dekay, has been taken by Mr. Ayres, about three miles from Hartford, and he 

 observes it is found only in the earliest spring water, even so intensely cold as to be 

 painful to the hand immersed in it. They are usually about four inches in length* 

 and lie on the bottom and sometimes under cover of the stones. 



*19. This is a new species discovered and described by Mr. Ayres, and taken in 

 this State. 



*20. The Aspidophorus of Cuvier is doubtless a very rare fish, but it has been re- 

 peatedly obtained in Massachusetts, from the stomachs of haddock, as indicated 

 by Dr. Storer. As the latter fish is not uncommon in our Sound, it may at least be 

 conjectured this may also be found there. It is so extremely small it would scarcely 

 be noticed except by a naturalist. 



*21. The sea raven was taken at Stonington, in June, 1842. Length 15 inches, 

 circumference back of ventrals9£ inches. 



*22. Two specimens of the sea scorpion were caught the season past by Mr. P- 

 Wilmot, in a tide mill-pond, between Stratford and Bridgeport. 



*24. The spotted wry-mouth was taken in Bridgeport, by Charles Norman, in 

 April, 1842, and presented by me to the Boston Society of Natural History through 

 the hand of Dr. Storer. Length 13 inches. 



*25. This little two-spined fish I have often found here, but very much doubt its 

 being a distinct species ; consider it more probably a mere variety of the New York 

 aUcklfi-back, which is also common here. 



