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from Sitka; Port Althorp; Port Etches; Port Chatham; Cook Inlet; Popoff Strait and Coal Har))or, Shum- 

 agins; Unalaska; Kyska; Nazan Bay, Atka: Bay of Islands, Adak; Amchitka: Chichagof Harl^or and 

 Attn. Bean (1884), Fort Tongass and Xakat. Xelson (1887). Unalaska. 



Known from Kamchatka to San Francisco. Kot common in Bering Sea, but appears to be 

 abundant from Sitka to Puget Sound. It reaches a length of IS inches and shoidd be of some value 

 as a food fish. 



Fig. G3. — Enophr.vs bison (Girard). 

 124. Enophrys bison (Girard). 



This sculpin is quite common scmth of Killisnoo. No specimens were secured by us north of this 

 point. The collection contains 34 specimens, 1 to 9.5 inches long, taken at the following places: Port 

 Townsend; Marrowstone Point; Admiralty Head; Fort Rupert; Kilisut Harljor; Port Alexander; Port 

 Ludlow; Sucia Island; Loring; Yes Bay; Cleveland Passage, and Killisnoo. 



The species was recorded In' Bean (1882) from Sitka, and from St. Paul. Kodiak Island. 



125. Enophrys claviger (Cuvier and Valenciennes). (PI. xvii. fig. 1.) 

 Recorded by Gilbert (1895) from station 3233, Bristol Bay. No specimens olitained by us. 



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Fig. 04. — CeratocottLis diceraus (Pallas). 

 126. Ceratocottus diceraus (Pallas). 



Recorded liy Bean from Sitka ^1882) and Tolstoi Bay and Fort Tongass (1884); by Gilbert from 

 Herendeen Bay (1895), and by Jordan and Gilbert from St. Paul Island (1899, as V. hicasi). 



We have 3 specimens, 5.75 to 6.25 inches long, collected at Tarciuski, Kamchatka, June 21, and 2 

 specimens each about 3 inches long and each taken from the stomach of a halibut, one at Killisnoo, 

 July 2C, the other somewhere in Southeast Alaska, locality not definitely recorded. These specimens 

 indicate that Ceratocottus lucasi Jordan and Gilbert is the young of C. diceraus. 



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