526 THE MACROURUS STRoMII ET RUPESTKIS. 



inches in length, and is not believed to exceed a foot. 

 Little seems known of its habits ; but Professor 15. Fries 

 imagines that it lives for the most part in comparatively 

 shallow water amongst seaweeds. Its food consists of 

 various kinds of marine animals crustaceans, molluscs, 

 sea-urchins, and sea-stars of which one finds the remains 

 in its stomach. Its flesh is white and good, but from the 

 slimy and unsightly appearance of tin- lish it is for the 

 most part looked down upon by the fishermen, and 

 seldom brought to market. 



The Macrourm Strum!!, Sundevall (M<n;-<nirin< \<>rr<>- 

 gicus, Nilss. ; Strains' Sko-lrist, i. e. Strom's shoe-last, 

 Sw.), a Northern fish, though unknown in our Skarg;ird, 

 lias been captured in one instance on the Jutland Keel'. 

 On the western coast of Norway, from its southern 

 extremity to the North Cape, however, it is not so very 

 uncommon, and is there known by the name of >Y,W</.s7. 

 Its usual length is from two feet and a half to three f.vt. 

 It is a deep-sea fish, and is often taken in from 80 to 

 120 fathoms, for the most part in deep fjords near pre- 

 cipitous cliffs, but at times at a distance from land. Of 

 its breeding and other habits Northern naturalists seem 

 in entire ignorance. 



The Macron run /v//r.s7/v'.s'. Uloch (frt/jrir/nx' SL-<>-l<'i*l. 

 Sw.), also a Northern fish, has only on one occasion been 

 identified in the Scandinavian seas. This was in ls:U), 

 at Hammerfest, not far from the North Cape, and in the 

 follow-in- year Professor Sundevall gave a description of it, 

 in the "Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences," 

 under the name of M. Fabric!!. 



