346 Remarks on the Natural History of Fishes. 
neither a “ Scorpaena,” nor a “ mugil,” nor a “ surmudlus ;” and 
yet here we find an account of each. 
If instead of copying upon page 273, a plate of the Huropean 
perch, from Strack, our only species of “ Perca” the “ flavescens” 
had been delineated, while the writer before us had avoided an 
error, he would have conferred an obligation. 
The 
“ Bodianus leucos”—“rufus’—and ‘ pallidus” are all 
unknown fishes to me. 
Six pages are devoted to the “ striped bass” —“ Labraz lin- 
eata,”’ here incorrectly called “ Perca labrax”—the European 
species. Our writer observes, “one old fashioned bass only, is 
known to us from Cape Cod to Maine:” if he will visit Boston 
market in any of the spring or autumnal months, he may see an- 
other very common and pretty species of bass—the “ mucrona- 
tus’—the “smaller American bass,” called by our fishermen 
* Pond perch.” 
The probability of the “ Uranoscopus scaber” being found 
here, may be inferred from the following remark of Rich- 
ardson in his “Fauna Boreali Americana’—the “ Uranos- 
copus scaber,” is common to the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, 
without having been detected in the Atlantic.” 
We are told by the writer that he had not found the “ 777 
gla lineata” in Massachusetts—we have no “ Trigla” on out 
coast; but the Prionotus strigatus,’ incorrectly called here 
“ Trigla lineata,” is common at Martha’s Vineyard. 
Four species of “Cotti”—sculpins,” are here spoken of; one 
of which, the “gobio,” we are told, “is universally known 
all over New England ;” another, the “ quadricornus” “is found 
along the whole coast ;” the “ scorpius” is illustrated by a fig- 
ure from Strack; and with the “cataphractus” “ the fisher- 
men are particularly familiar under the name of ruper seulpin 
—horn sculpin,’ &c. Not one of these fishes is ours—the 
“ aeneus,” and “ Virginianus” and “ Groenlandicus’’ are common 
along our entire sea-board, but not one of the above mentioned 
species did I ever hear of being taken. 
The “ Batrachus grunniens’” is mistaken for the “ varies 
tus” of Le Sueur. 
Under the genus “ Lophius,’ we have an account of the 
€ piscatorius ;” our writer tells us he was fortunate enough to ob- 
tain one, the body of which, was four feet in length, and “ when 
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