346 Remarks on the Natural History of Fishes. 



neither a " Scorpaena" nor a " mugilj'^ nor a " surmullus ;" and 

 yet here we find an account of each. 



If instead of copying upon page 273, a plate of the European 

 perch, from Strack, our only species of " Perca''^ the "flavescens^^ 

 had been delineated, while the writer before us had avoided an 

 error, he would have conferred an obligation. 



The " Bodianus leucos^^ — " rufus^^ — ^and "pallidus^^ are all 

 unknown fishes to me. 



Six pages are devoted to the " striped 6ass" — " Lahrax lin- 

 eata^^ here incorrectly called " Perca lahrax''^ — the European 

 species. Our writer observes, " one old fashioned bass only, is 

 known to us from Cape Cod to Maine :" if he will visit Boston 

 market in any of the spring or autumnal months, he may see an- 

 other very common and pretty species of bass — the " mucrojia- 

 ius^^ — the '^smaller American bass,^^ called by our fishermen 

 " Pond per ch.''^ 



The probability of the " Uranoscopus scaler" being found 

 here, may be inferred from the following remark of Rich- 

 ardson in his " Fauna Boreali Americana" — the " Uranos- 

 copus scaber" is common to the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, 

 without having been detected in the Atlantic." 



We are told by the writer that he had not found the " Tri" 

 gla lineata" in Massachusetts — we have no " Trigla" on our 

 coast ; but the Prionotus strigatus" incorrectly called here 

 ti 'j'rigla lineata^ is common at Martha's Vineyard. 



Four species of " Cotti" — sculpins" are here spoken of; one 

 of which, the ^'- gohio" we are told, "is universally known 

 all over New England ;" another, the " quadricornus" " is found 

 along the whole coast ;" the " scorpius" is illustrated by a fig- 

 ure from S track ; and with the " cataphracttis" " the fisher- 

 men are particularly familiar under the name of ruper sculpin 

 — hoim sculpin" &c. Not one of these fishes is ours — the 

 " aeneus" and " Virginianus" and " Groenlandicus" are common 

 along our entire sea-board, but not one of the above mentioned 

 species did I ever hear of being taken. 



The ^^ Batrachus grunniens" is mistaken for the '■^ variega- 

 tus" of Le Sueur. 



Under the genus ^^ Lophius" we have an account of the' 

 ^^ piscatorius ;" our writer tells us he was fortunate enough to ob- 

 tain one, the body of which, was four feet in length, and " when 



