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all, it is perhaps doubtful if this fish, as a separate species, 

 really exists, for Dr. Gunther, to whom I have submitted 

 the above drawing, taken from the Transactions of the 

 lloyal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 1844, Pig. 2, 

 pronounces it to be no other than the young of the 

 Common Angler. 



The Batrachus borealis, Nilss., which in many respects 

 resembles the Common Angler (and which Nilsson surmises 

 may be identical with the Gadits Tau, Bloch ; Batrachus 

 Conspicillum, Valenc.), has been added to the Scandinavian 

 fauna from a single specimen, eight inches in length, 

 said to have been taken in the Cattegat near Kullen. 

 But it has lately been questioned whether this fish be 

 really entitled to this distinction, it being reported that 

 the specimen alluded to, now in the Lund Museum, instead 

 of having been captured on the Swedish coast, was 

 purchased from the captain of an American ship ! 



THE CHIHOXKCTES ARCTICUS. 



The Chironectes arcticus, von Diiben & Korea. 

 a single specimen of this fish, and that less than two 

 inches in length, has as yet been met with off the Scan- 



