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Cottus cognatus, &c. with Cottus gobio. 12] 
I have thus given, as I believe, a correct and literal transla- 
tion of Artedi’s description. The perfect and very remark- 
able agreement of this with our fish, I will presently endeavor 
to show; and I may here remark that this account, though 
written more than a hundred years since, is more exact and 
precise than any other which I have been able to find, 
Though one or two points might, apparently, be amended, yet 
taken as a whole, the description is most admirable, and reflects 
great credit on its author ; it is, in fact, vastly better than the 
majority of the descriptions which are published in our day. 
_ I will now attempt to prove that the specimens which we 
obtain in Connecticut present nothing by which they may be 
specifically separated from those of Europe, and that, of 
course, the name by which they should be known is 
Cottus gobio. 
In order to do this, I will, in the first place, give a descrip- 
tion, drawn from specimens taken in Manchester, Ct. And 
though I have taken a single one as a basis, whose measure- 
ments, &c., I have given, the account is not drawn from a 
single fish. I have examined very numerous specimens, 
living and dead, of all their different sizes, of both sexes, and at 
almost all seasons of the year, and points in which I should 
have been in error from an inspection of one fish, have been 
Corrected from an examination of many. The dimensions are 
not those of a specimen of the largest size. 
Entire length, two inches and six-tenths; length to the 
middle of the eyes, two-tenths ; to the end of the preopercu- 
Spine, nine-twentieths; to the beginning of the pecto- 
rals, five-tenths; to the origin of the ventrals, eleven- 
twentieths ; to the beginning of the first dorsal, seven-tenths ; 
to the end of the same, one inch and three-twentieths ; to 
the end of the second dorsal, one inch and nineteen-twen- 
tieths; to the beginning of the anal fin, one inch and two- 
tenths; to the end of the same, one inch and eight tenths ; 
to the inning of the caudal fin, two inches and one-tenth. 
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