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Arr. XV. — Observations on the Fishes of Nova Scotia and 
Labrador, with Descriptions of New Species. By Ho- 
RATIO ROBINSON STORER. 
Durie the summer of 1849, I was enabled hastily to 
examine the waters of part of the coast of Nova Scotia, espe- 
cially the so-called Gut of Canso, and of the southern coast 
of Labrador, which latter locality, at least so far as I can 
ascertain, appears never to have been visited by an ichthyolo- 
gist. My sojourn on that coast was passed in the. harbors 
between the Island of Anticosti on the south-west and the 
mouth of the Straits of Belle Isle, a region whose fishes seem 
what might have been expected from its situation, interme- 
diate as it is between the comparatively warm waters of our 
own shores and the polar ice. 
The object of this voyage was rather to gain additional 
knowledge concerning the limits to which the fish of our own 
waters range than to discover new species. But since I was 
fortunate enough to do both, I need make no apology for this 
Paper, save for the lateness of the hour at which it appears. 
1. Acanrnocorrus Lasraporicus Girard. 
Plate VII. fig. 3. 
Mr. Girard writes me thus: — 
“ When I wrote my Paper on the genus Cottus,' I had no 
'expectation that so short a time would elapse before I could 
verify my opinion that there were more than one species con- 
founded under the name of A. grenlandicus. At your 
request I have compared one specimen of the so-called A. 
grenlandicus from Labrador with the species of the same name 
from the’ shores-of Massachusetts. The result is, that they 
are two distinct species. 
` 1 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. iii, p. 183. 
