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is white and firm when cooked, and of delicate flavor, although somewhat dry. They enter 

 the mouths of small creeks at high water, retreating with the tide. As elsewhere, they are 

 bold, greedy feeders, and give the angler much annoyance when fishing for other and better 

 fish by constantly nibbling off his bait and frequently insisting upon being hooked. I have 

 taken them with ordinary clam bait, and also with the revolving spoon. The Indians generally 

 procure them by spearing. A fish of this species, obtained by me at Fort Steilacoom in 

 January, 1854, presented the following appearance: Upper parts of head and back yellowish 

 brown, tinged with green; belly and lower parts white; lateral line yellowish white; pectoral 

 fins brownish olive, tipped with very pale yellow, and crossed with four bars of bright yellow; 

 ventral and anal fins yellowish white; caudal olive, crossed with three partial yellowish bands. 

 The colors of this individual are a fair sample of those generally found in the species. 



ASPICOTTUS BISON, Grd. 



Bnfialo Scnlpin. 



Plate XV, Fig. 1. 



Sp. Ch — The posterior extremity of the maxillary extends to a vertical line drawn midway between the posterior edge 

 of the pupil and the posterior rim of the orbit. Tlie scutellae constituting the lateral line are crowded, vertically elongated. 

 Upper regions dark greenish brown, mottled or blotched with black. Beneath dull yellowish, with meandric dark lines 

 under the head and throat. Ventrals uniform yellowish white ; other fins mottled yellow and black. 



S-m.—Aspicottus bison, Geo. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VII, 1854, 130; &, VIII, 1856, 133.— Ib. Gen. Rep. Fishes, p. 66. 

 Clypeocotlus robustus, Ayees, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat Sc. I, 185-t, 11. 



This toad-fish or sculpin is not uncommon in the waters of Puget Sound. In habits it 



resembles the preceding species, but seems to confine itself more to deep water. A specimen, 



caught in January, 1854, had twelve ovoid brownish lilac spots on the iris, which was itself 



dingy white. 



ARTEDIUS NOTOSPILOTUS, Grd. 



Ayres' Sculpiu. 



Plate XXII b, Figs. 5 & 6. 



Sp. Ch. — Surface of head sub-tuberculous and scaly. Preopercle armed with a flat tricuspid spine. Anterior margin 

 of first dorsal situated in advance of the beginning of the dorsal band of scales, which is broad, and extends from the 

 thoracic arch to near the terminus of the base of the second dorsal. Olivaceous, with a series of saddle-like black patches. 

 Abdomen dull yellow or white. 



STU.—Artedius twtospUoius, Geo. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VIII, 1856, 134 ; &, in Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI, 1857 ; 

 PI. xxiv, figs. 5 and 6.— 1b. Gen. Rep. Fishes, p. 71. 

 Calycibpidotus lateralis, AvKES, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1, 1855, 77. 



But a single specimen of this fish was obtained by me. It was taken by Lieutenant Murden, 

 of the United States revenue service, from Puget Sound, near Port Townsend. No notes 

 were made of its habits. 



ZANIOLEPIS LATIPINNIS, Grd. 

 Rongh Scnlpin. 



Plate XVII, Figs. 5 & 6. 



Sp. Ch.— Three small spines upon the convexity of the preopercle. First dorsal much longer than the second, with its 

 two anterior rays protracted beyond the others. Anal fin longer than the soft dorsal, and provided with three spinous rays. 



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