SECOND SUPPLEMENT 



TO THE FIRST VOLUME OP 



THE HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 



ACANTHOPTERI. SCLEROGENID^E. 



FABRICIUS'S SEA-BULLHEAD. 

 KANIOK, Greenland Eskimos. 



Acanthocottus groenlandicus, GIRARD. 



Coitus scorpius, FABRICIUS, F. Groenl. p. 156 (excl. syn.). 



,, groerilandicus, Cuv. et. VALENC. Poiss. vol. iv. p. 185. 



,, ,, RICHARDSON, F. Bor. Am. iii. pp. 46, 297, 314, pi. 95. 



,, ,, Greenl. Bullhead, THOMPS. Nat. Hist, of Irel. iii. p. 81. 



AN example of this species was captured in Dingle 

 Harbour in February 1850, and exhibited in the Dublin 

 Natural History Society, by Mr. William Andrews. As 

 yet, this and one seen by Dr. Ball, are the only recorded 

 examples of the fish that have been met with on our 

 shores. The figure at the head of the article, which 

 corresponds closely with the one published by Mr. 

 Andrews, and the vignette at the end, are borrowed from 

 the Fauna Boreali Americana, where a Newfoundland 

 specimen is described at length. 



This, Fabricius says, is a most voracious fish, and very 



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