THE PIPE-FISHES. 5i5 



ones immediately crept back into the pouch, and the flaps 

 closed upon them. I repeated this experiment several 

 times, and always with the same result." 



The S. rostellatus, Gyllenstjerna, Nilss. (S, Typhle, 

 Malm ; Lltcn Kant-Nul, or little edged-needle, Sw.), has 

 lately been added to the Scandinavian fauna as a new- 

 species (?). According to M. Malm's account, it would 

 not appear to be so very uncommon in the Bohus Skar- 

 ga,rd. This little fish, the length of which seldom 

 exceeds six inches, might, we are told, be readily mis- 

 taken for the young of the great Pipe-Fish, but the head 

 is shorter than the dorsal fin, and the number of lateral 

 plates from the gill-cover to the anus is invariably six- 

 teen, instead of twenty or twenty-one. 



The Deep-nosed Pipe-Fish [Yarrell], or Lesser Pipe- 

 Fish [Jenyns], (_B 'red-it abba d [i. e. broad-nosed] Kant-Nal, 

 Sw. ; Liden [i. e. little] Tany-Naal, Dan. ; S. Typhle, 

 Linn. ; S. Acus, Ekstrom) is very common in the Bohus 

 Skargard, more so, indeed, than any of the family, as also 

 in all the other Scandinavian seas, both eastern and 

 western. Its usual length is from nine to ten inches, 

 and seldom exceeds twelve. Except during the spawning 

 season, which would appear to continue for two or three 

 months, and at which time it retires to the deeps, it lives 

 for the most part in comparatively shallow water, amongst 

 sea-weeds and grasses. For the table it is valueless. 



The Snake Pipe-Fish (Stor Hafs-Nfd, or great sea- 

 needle, Sw. ; Snippe, Dan. ; S. cequoreus, Linn.) was less 

 common in our Skargard, and elsewhere on the western 

 coast of Sweden and Norway, where it ranges up to, or 

 beyond, Sondmor (lat. 62). It does not appear to have 

 been identified in the Baltic. Its usual length is from 



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sixteen to eighteen inches, but it is said to attain to near 

 two feet. Nilsson, I should observe, considers Yarrell's 

 yEquoreal Pipe-Fish (S. aiqu-oreus, Linn., Yarr.) to be the 



