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are of a greenish cast, like that of the sea-wrack, 

 nmong which they reside for some time after their 

 birth. 



The Wolf-Fish is taken both in nets and by the 

 line, but much more rarely by the latter method, as 

 it does not easily take the bait. Though the flesh 

 is tolerable, yet from the forbidding appearance of 

 the animal, it is rarely eaten in Europe, except by 

 the fishermen : the Greenlanders however eat it, 

 both fresh and dried, and make convenient satchels 

 of the skin, in which they keep their utensils of 

 various kinds. 



The Anarhichas strigosus, mentioned in Dr. 

 Gmelin's edition of the Systema Naturae, seems to 

 be nothing more than a variety in which the dusky 

 bands of the body are narrower and somewhat less 

 regular than usual, as in the specimen engraved in 

 the British Zoology. 



PANTHER WOLF-FISH. 



Anarhichas Pantherinus. A.favusfusco maculatus. 



Yellow Wolf- Fish, spotted with brown. 



Anarhichas pantherinus. A. maculis per totum corpus rotundis 



fuscis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1144. Act. Petrop. 1781. 



p.271.t. 6. 



IN its general appearance this is much allied to 

 the preceding species, but differs greatly in colour, 

 being of a deep yellow or fulvous, variegated on 

 all parts with pretty numerous, round, deep brown 

 or blackish spots of different sizes, the largest of 



v. iv. P. i. 7 



