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black; pectorals and ventrals pale; sides of head somewhat 

 silvery; cavity of mouth dark bluish. 



The four-bearded rockling is found in the north Atlantic on 

 both coasts, ranging south in deep water to the Gulf Stream. 

 It is common in Massachusetts bay. This fish is also described 

 in Oceanic Ichthyology, p. 384, fig. 328. At Woods Hole Mass., 

 according to Dr Smith, it is a rare visitor, found only in winter. 

 It was once taken in a fyke net in Great harbor. In 1900, 

 according to Sherwood and Edwards, young rockling were taken 

 in the surface to wings at the fish commission wharf, Woods Hole 

 Mass, from June 27 to July 6. They formed into schools in the 

 eddies, around the wharves and were mixed with young stickle- 

 backs. An example measuring 10 inches in length was speared 

 in the Eel pond Jan. 5, 1889. A second example was caught in 

 Little harbor also in the winter. 



Storer described and figured this fish under the name 

 M o t e 1 1 a caudacuta. It is a resident of the deep waters 

 of Massachusetts bay, where it occurs in considerable abundance. 

 The young swim at the surface and have often been erroneously 

 identified with the mackerel midge. The species grows to the 



length of 1 foot. 



Genus BROSME (Cuvier) Oken 



Body moderately elongate, covered with very small scales; 

 mouth rather large, with teeth in the jaws, vomer and palatines, 

 some of those on the vomer and palatines enlarged; chin with a 

 barbel; branchiostegals seven; dorsal fin single, continuous, not 

 elevated, not notched; anal fin similar, but shorter; caudal fin 

 rounded; ventral fin several-rayed. Northern seas. 



356 Brosme brosme iMiiller) 

 Cusk 



Gadus brosme MULLEE, Prodr. Zool. Dan. 41, 1776, Denmark. 



Brosmius rulfiaris? DE KAY. X. Y. Fauna. Fishes, 289, pi 44, fig. 143, 1842. 



Brosmhis flavescens GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. IV, 369, 1862; STOBER, 



Hist. Fish. Mass. 190, pi. XXIX, fig. 2, 1867. 

 Brosmius brosme, GUNTHER, op. cit. IV, 369, 1862; GOODE & BEAN, Bull. 



Essex Inst. XI, 9, 1879; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



802, 1883; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichth. 385, fig. 329, 1896; H. M. 



SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 107, 1898. 

 Brosme brosme JORDAN & EVERMANX, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2561, 



