158 APPENDIX. 



FISHES. 



Scomber scombrus — Common Mackarel. 

 Mentioned by Martens (p. 97). 



MuLLus BARBATus ? — Red SuTmullet ? 

 Scoresby {Arctic Regions, i, 541) refers to this as having 

 been taken by a seaman out of the mouth of a seal near 

 Spitzbergen. The body was wholly red ; the length about 

 twelve inches. " It was boiled/' he adds, " for our officers, 

 and proved an excellent dish." 



Stomias ferox. 

 Spitzbergen. (Kroyer, Nat. Tidsk, 1847, 253 ; Voy. en 

 Scand.,i. 16 b, f. 1.) 



Cyclopterus spinosus — Si^iny Lump-Sucker, 

 Spitzbergen. (Kroyer, Nat. Tidsk, 1847, 202.) 



LiPARis COMMUNIS — Unctuous Sucker. 

 (Liparis Fabricii, Kroyer, Voi/. en Scand., t. viii, f. 2.) 



Seven Island Bay (Phipps) ; westward of Low Island 

 (J. C. Eoss) ; Bell Sound (Kroyer, Nat. Tidsk, 1847, 274). 



jMerlangus POLARIS — Arctic Coal-fish. 

 Abundant in small bays, where streams of fresh water run 

 into the sea (J. C. Ross). 



Ophidium Parrii, or a closely allied Species. 

 Amongst sea-wccd on the shore of AValden Island (J. C. 

 Ross, 1. c, 199). 



Dragon fish — Martens. Page 90. 



Spitzbergen, 



Ilay. Page 103 



Dalatias microcephalus — Northern Shark. 



(Squalus borealis — Greenland Shark. Scoresby.) 



Spitzbergen : " One of the foes of the whale. It bites it 



