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The inequality of the lobes and the singular shape are not present in the 

 smaller individuals referred to below. 



Mr. Kuinlien sent the following notes of color: "Brassy red; belly 

 white; eye red. Fins dark purple brown." A sketch of this specimen 

 by Mr. Kumlien has the caudal lobes equal. 



21747. (481.) Kingwah Fjord, Cumberland Gulf, A. L. Kumlien. D. 13, , 20. A. 

 16, 21. V. 6. Length 180 millimetres. 



"Found on a seal-hole. Iris silvery white. Fins dark purple brown. 

 Belly and lower parts silvery. Back brassy olive brown." Kumlim. 



21748. (857.) Head of Cumberland Gulf, A. L. Kumlien. D. 13,16,20. A. 19,21. 

 P. 19. V. 6. Length 160 millimetres. 



" Dark brassy red, becoming blue-black on head. Silvery white on 

 belly. Pectorals white. All the rest of the fins dark purple-blue." 

 Kumlien. 



21753. (369.) Cumberland Gulf, Jan. 2, 1878, A. L. Kumlien. Length 112 millim. 



"The principal food of Pagomys fcetidus at this season." Kumlien. 



I have followed the lead of Malmgren* and Collettt in employing the 

 name Gadus saida Lepech. Professor Collett has made a direct com- 

 parison of examples of this form of cod from Archangel, Greenland, 

 Spitzbergen, and !N"ova Zembla, and he believes thepolaris of Sabine, 

 1824, Fabridi of Eichardson, 1836, and agilis of Reinhardt, 1838, to be 

 identical with G. saida. The only difference that he observed is that 

 individuals from the White Sea have, as a rule, darker fins than the 

 rest, which he justly attributes to a difference in the surroundings of 

 the bottom in the different places. They agree in squamation, structure 

 of the teeth, position of the anus, and in every particular of the structure 

 of the body so completely that they cannot possibly be separated.}: 



4. Pollachius carbonarius (Linn.) Bon. 



Merlangm carbonarius RICH., Last of the Arctic Voyages, 1855, p. 375. 



Richardson records the species from Davis Strait. 



5. Gadus morrhua Linn. 



Gadus morrlnia RICH., F. B. A., iii, 1836, p. 243. 



Richardson states that Davis observed many cod in the possession of 

 the Eskimo who live between Cape Raleigh and Cumberland Strait. 



* Ofv. Kgl. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1864, p. 531. 



tChristiania Vid. Selsk. Forh. No. 14, 1878, (p. 80). 



; Men iovrigt stenime de i Skjgelbeklsedniug, Tandbygniug, Stilliugen af Anus og i 

 ethvert Punkt af deres Legemsbygning saa fuldkommen overens, at nogen Adskillelso 

 mellem den ikke er mulig. Colktt, L c. 



