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common. Rock cod are as well-known as with us. Mr. Devine 
states that very pretty yellow cod are sometimes taken. Capt. 
H. R. Bowen says that the deep water fish are generally light in 
color. Mr. Devine informed me that the winter fish are whiter 
than those of any other season. The same gentleman mentions 
peculiarities of shape among the cod, as, for example, “ bull- 
eyed” fish with prominent eyes, and “ seal-head”’ fish with short 
snout and wide forehead. The shore fish which were brought to 
us by Indians from Old Sitka were always dark-colored, with 
long heads and eyes far apart, and with conspicuous blotches, in 
general appearance often resembling the small cod taken in 
shallow water off South Greenland—the ogac form of the com- 
mon cod. There are no differences, so far as general appearances 
go, between Alaskan and New England cod ; it would be impos- 
sible to tell one from the other if they were mixed in a tank 
Without tags or some other means of identification. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
In general terms, we may say that cod are found around the 
whole southern shore of Alaska, and westward along the Aleutian 
chain as far as Atka, extending on the western shore not much 
beyond Bristol Bay, though they have been observed as far north 
as St. Lawrence Island. They are said not to penetrate far into 
Cook’s Inlet. We caught several large ones in Chugachik Bay, 
but they were sick. In Port Chatham, which is near the entrance 
to the inlet, we found them common and good. Mr. Cohen told 
me that cod are present all the year near Fort Alexander. In 
Refuge Cove, a small arm of Port Chatham, we took many young 
cod in brackish water. At Chernoffsky, also, on the island of 
Unalashka, we again found them abundant in brackish water as- 
sociated with young Oncorhynchus, Salvelinus malma, Ammodytes, 
Lumpenus and Cottus. Several small streams flow into Chernoff- 
sky Bay at this point, and the young fish were taken in water 
varying from three feet to one fathom in depth close to the shore. 
Fish of considerable size (weighing several pounds) were taken 
from the wharves at Iliuliuk during our stay. Cod are quite 
abundant close to the shores of the Kodiak group, the Shuma- 
gins and Unalashka Island. I have seen them taken in about 
