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saukee, when caught through the ice in winter, the fish is 

 hiffhlv esteemed; in the fur countries the roe is an article of 

 lood; on the Yukon river the liver is eaten and the flesh is 

 liked by some persons; in Montana the burbot is in great de- 

 mand for food; the qualit}^ of the flesh appears to depend chiefly 

 on the iiature of the habitat of the fish. 



This is the only member of the cod family permanently resi- 

 dent in the fresh waters of America. 



Genus urophycis Gill 

 Body rather elongate; head subconic; mouth rather large, 

 the maxillary reaching to below eye; lower jaw included; 

 chin with a small barbel; jaws and vomer with broad bands of 

 subequal, pointed teeth; palatines toothless; dorsal fins two, 

 the first sometimes produced at tip; second dorsal long, similar 

 to the anal; ventrals wide apart, filamentous, each of three slen- 

 <ler rays closely joined, appearing like one bifid filament; gill 

 membranes somewhat connected, narrowly joined to the 

 isthmus. 



Subgenus urophycis 



350 Urophycis regius (Walbaum) 

 Spotted Codling; Spotted Hake 



lUnmius rcfjivs Walbaum, Art. Gen. Pise. Ill, 186, 1792. 



<!adus pimctatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 372, pi. I. fig. 5, 



1815, New York; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fislies, 292, pi. 46, fig. 149, 



1842. 



I'hycis regalis Gunther, Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mus. IV, 354, 1862. 



J'hucis regiits Goode & Bean. Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 8^ 1879; Oceanic Icbth. 



357, 1896; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 372, 1897; H. M. Smith, 



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

 ' n>i,hycis regius Gill. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 240. 1863; Jordan & Ever- 



M.ANx, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2553, 1898; IV, pi. CCCLXIV, fig. 



898, 1900. 



The (Irptl, ( (Ik- body is contained four aijd one half times 

 in its Ln-rlli. wl,iii is four and one fourth times the length of 

 "" 1'<-hI. J'.ndy rather stout; head broad; mouth large, the 

 nmxilli.ry n-ncliing posterior margin of eye; eye less than snout 

 " inf-orbit.l width; first dorsal low, its hight about equal 

 '" I'^'lf h'ligll. of iH-ad; ventral fin longer than head, about 

 "" '"' """ '''" i" *l'e length of the body; caudal fin subtrun- 



