Fishes of Massachusetts. ^ 890r 
Corrus. Lin. 
. Generic characters. Head large, depressed: 
teeth in both jaws and in front of vomer, small, 
sharp ; none on the palatine bones: preoperculum or 
operculum armed with spines, sometimes both: bran- 
chiostegous rays 6: gill-openings large: body atten- 
uated, naked, without scales: two dorsal fins, dis- . 
tinct, or very slightly connected : ventral fins small. 
C. Groenlandicus. Cuv. The Greenland Sculpin. 
. Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 185. 
Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 46 et 297, et fig. 
This beautiful species, which is a favorite food of 
the Greenlanders, I have seen in large quantities 
in the small coves at Nahant, and often taken, while 
fishing from the rocks there, for the Sea-perch or 
Conner. It is undoubtedly commo: along our whole 
coast. The specimen before me was taken from 
one of the wharves in Boston. 
Length of my specimen thirteen inches? being a 
few lines only shorter than Richardson’s specimen, 
which he so clearly and minutely describes, and ac- 
curately figures. Upper part of body dark brown, 
with large clay-colored blotches on top of head. and 
upon gill-covers—with a few smaller ones on back 
and sides, and small circular yellow spots on sides 
towards abdomen. Large. circular perfectly white 
spots upon abdomen, beneath the pectorals. The 
sides above and beneath the lateral line roughened 
by granulated tubercles. Length of head four and 
