ATO Storer on the 
tities throughout all the warm season near the shore, 
from the wharves, bridges, &c., and in the winter 
is speared through the ice. Those taken about Deer 
Island are considered very fine, in the market. 
The largest specimen of the “plana,” I have seen, 
measured in length twenty-one inches, and in width, 
seventeen inches. 
The color is very variable; sometimes the right 
side, upon which are situated the eyes, is of a rusty 
brown; sometimes of a dark, blackish brown; at 
other times, of a dull slate color. Scales small. 
Surface of the fish, smooth. Left side colorless. 
Length of the specimen before me, thirteen and a 
half inches; length, exclusive of the tail, ten and a 
half inches; length of the head, two and a half 
inches; depth of the fish across its middle, less than 
half the length of the fish, when the tail is in- 
cluded. Head covered with scales; mouth small; 
lips large and fleshy; a single row of compact, 
prominent, slightly incurved teeth in each jaw. 
The half of the jaw next to the eyes, without teeth. 
Eyes large; their longest diameter six lines; the 
shorter, four lines; pupils black; irides golden. 
Space between the eyes, two lines wide, covered 
with scales. The lateral line, commencing at the 
anterior inferior angle of the under eye, curves back- 
wards and upwards just behind the eyes, until it 
reaches the upper edge of the gill-covers, when it 
passes back wards in a straight line to the rays of the 
caudal fin, curving only very slightly over the pec- 
. torals. "This lateral line is perfectly smooth. i 
The Dorsal fin commences anteriorly to the mid- 
