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scarcely believe he beheld the same fishes as those 
he had lately admired in their native beauty. 
In a paper read before the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History, in 1836, I noticed the “ G'asterosteus 
quadratus," Mitchell, as being found in our waters. 
The specimen upon which I founded this belief, 
was in a mutilated state, and is still in the cabinet 
of that Society. Having met with no species of 
“ Gasterosteus” since that time, with four dorsal 
spines, save the “ apeltes? —and being therefore in- 
clined to think that that specimen may be the 
apeltes, I am unwilling to assert that the “ quad- 
ratus” is found in our State. 
Fawiry III. 
SCIENOIDES. 
OrorrrHvs. Cuv. 
Generic characters. Head gibbous, supported by 
cavernous bones: two dorsal fins: anal spines weak, 
and no cirrhi: some of the teeth are elongated hooks, 
or true canini: the natatory bladder has a horn on 
each side, which is directed forwards. 
O. regalis. Cuv. Squeteague. Weak Fish. 
Trans. Lit. et Philosoph. Soc. N. Y., p. 396, et fig. 
Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. v. 67. 
Fauna Boreali Americana, p. 68. 
This species, which, some years since, was found 
in large numbers about Nantucket and Martha's 
Vineyard, has of late entirely disappeared. During 
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