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9. GunneLLus mucronatus De Kay. 
Taken with the Acanthocottus ocellatus, by hand net, in 
Wilmot Harbor, Nova Scotia. Hitherto observed only in 
Massachusetts and New York. 
10. GusNELLUs incens H. R. Storer. 
Plate VIII. fig. 1. 
Blennius (Centronotus) gunnellus, Rion. F. B. A. HI. p. 91. 
This fish was considered by Richardson as identical with 
the English species. He had seen, however, but one speci- 
men, and this, sent to Yarrell by Audubon from Labrador, 
had been nearly spoiled by long immersion in rum. Yarrell, 
also, from the same specimen considered the two fishes to be 
the same. 
Color, olive brown marbled with darker, assuming a banded 
appearance after death. Base of dorsal fin marked by twelve 
to fifteen black spots, sometimes circled with white, which 
vary much both as regards size and situation, in some cases 
descending upon the sides more than the width of the fin. 
Pectorals lemon yellow. Color of anal varies greatly. A 
well defined brownish band descends from eye to below angle 
of jaw. | 
Description. Body elongated, much compressed; line of 
back ascending till it attains its maximum at a distance poste- 
rior to opercular angle about twice the length of the head. 
Head small, blunt ; strongly depressed back of occiput ; its 
length one ninth that of the body. Depth of body one fourth 
more than length of head. Cheeks protuberant. Gape of 
mouth moderate, obliquely upward, so that lower jaw, which 
otherwise projects, equals the upper when mouth is closed. 
Eyes large; their diameter a third more than the distance 
between them. A row of mucous pores on lower jaw, preo- 
perculum, orbit of eye and ere: Teeth detached, di 
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