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XIII— AMMODYTIDH. 



AMMODYTES, Artedi. 



A. americanus. 



Body elongate, siibcompressccl, covered with very minute 

 scales. Head flattened above, compressed on the sides. — 

 Head and body above blnish brown, intermixed with silvery 

 and light green; sides and beneath silvery. Length, G to 12 

 inches . 



D. 5G; P. 13; A. 27; C. 17. 



A. americanus, Guenther, I, p. 38G. 



— tohianus, Mitch. Lit. ct Phil. Trans. New York, I, p. 

 363; Storer^ Fishes Massach , lo'J, 



— americanus, DeKav, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 317; 

 pi. 53, fig. 167. 



(Occasional in the Ocean on the coast of Worcester county. 



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BLENNIUS, Artedi. 



B. fucorum, 



Sea- Weed Blenny. 



Body small, cylindrical, and scaleless; head large, deeper 

 than long; the large and very prominent eyes project beyond 

 the face; a thread-shape cirrus, bifid at tip, and nearly as long 

 as the head, projects from the upper part of each orbit. Soiled 

 greenish, brownish above, Avith numerous brown spots on the 

 cheeks and sides of the body; throat and belly faintly rosa- 

 ceous. Length, 1 to 2 inches. 



Fin-rays;— D. 11.17; P. 14; V. 3; A. 18; C. 14. 



B. fucorwn, Cuv. & Val. XI, p. 263, pi. 324; DeKay, 

 New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 149, pi. 22, fig. 66. 



Inhabits the Ocean drains of Worcester county, and^^in^the 

 ovster regions south of Tangier S'ound. 



CIIA8M0DES, Cuv. & Val. 



G. quadrifasciatus. 



Four-Banded Shanny. 



Body cylindrical, with a thick head; mouth very large; 

 dorsal fin not connected with the caudal. Color light broAvn 



