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7. Pomotis appendix, Mitchill, Black-eared Pond Perch, Hart- 

 ford, 



*S. Pomotis rubricauda, Storer, Red-tailed Pond Perch, Bridge- 

 port and Hartford. 



*9. Etheostoma Olmstedi, Storer, Ground-fish, common. 



Family TriglidcB. 



*10. Dactylopterus volitans, Ouv., Sea Swallow, Long Island 

 Sound. 



11. Prionotus strigatus, Cuv., Sea Robin, Grunter, Stratford 

 and Stonington. 



12. Prionotus Carolinus, Cuv., Web-fingered Grunter, Strat- 

 ford and Stonington. 



*13. Trigla cuculus, Linn., Red Gurnard, East Haven. 

 *14. Cottus Mitchilli, Dekay, Smooth Brown Bullhead, Nor- 

 walk. 



15. Cottus Virginianus, Will., Common Sculpin, Stonington. 



■^S. The red-tailed pond perch, first discovered and described by Dr. Storer, may 

 perhaps eventually prove to be only a beautiful variety of the P. op^ewdex, although 

 at present Dr. S. I believe is not decided. 



*9. The E. Olmstedi, I have found in nearly all our fresh-water streams. It is 

 identical with Dr. Dekay's Boleosoma tesscllatum, I think its motions altogether 

 too slow to be called a " darter,'^ but as it always appears to lie upon the ground 

 except when aroused by fear, I prefer the name of ground-fish. All this genus, 

 owing to the peculiar shape of the head, are denominated hog-fish by Dr. Kirtland 

 in his report of the Zoology of Ohio. The fin rays of this species vary much in 

 their number. Dr. Storer's specimens, D. 9 — 13, P. 15, V. 6, A. 11, C. 15. My 

 largest specimen has, D. 8 — 15, P. 13, V. 6, A. 10, C. 16. 



P. S. I took in September last, in Wolcott, Wayne county, N. Y., about 3 miles 

 south of Lake Ontario, several individuals of the genus Etheostoma, which Dr. 

 Storer, to whom I sent three specimens, believes with myself, to be an undescribed 

 species. 



*10. An intelligent fisherman of this town (iWr. Mitchell,) who has long made it 

 his constant occupation, assures me that he has taken one of this sea sicallow in 

 Long Island Sound. It is so unlike any thing else that swims, there can be no mis- 

 take. Dr. Dekay's report says it ranges from Brazil to Newfoundland. 



■^13. The red gurnard was taken in a seine last spring at East Haven, by Mr. 

 Mitchell, as he informed me, of which Dr. Dekay's figure he thinks a good one. 

 Cuvier slates that he received this species from New York. 



*14. The two preceding species of Prionotus are very common on our shores, 

 and are often taken by seine, of which I have had several. The smooth hroicnhull- 

 head, about four inches in length, it is believed, I caught and preserved, while fish- 

 ing near Norwalk Islands for blackfish some years sinoe. Dr. Dekay believes it 

 not the young of any other species, but distinct on account of the spines of the 

 preopercle and the radial formula. 



