and Labrador, with Descriptions of New Species. 267 
90. Morruva Americana Storer. 
Thus far, ranging from New York to Massachusetts. Is 
common in Wilmot Bay, Nova Scotia. 
The different Labrador species of Cod, it will be impossible 
to ascertain with precision without a careful comparison with 
European specimens. Deformities are of common occurrence 
among them, usually consisting in a fore-shortening of the 
head, which gives them the name, among the fishermen, of 
“ bull-dogs."? 
21. Pnvers Amerricanus Storer. 
Has, hitherto, been noticed only from New York to Massa- 
chusetts. We saw several large and fine specimens of this 
fish taken in the northern entrance to the Gut of Canso, as 
we were lying becalmed there on the twenty-ninth of August. 
It is a much larger species than the P. punctatus, described 
by Hamilton Smith, in Richardson, as taken off Halifax. 
22, Hiprociossus vuLGARis Cuv. 
Fabricius mentions it in Greenland ; and it has next been 
found on the banks off the Maine coast, whence it ranges to 
New York. Several specimens were taken at Red Bay, 
Labrador, during our stay ; and I saw a fine one caught off 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, as we passed within hail of a "cui 
smack at anchor there. 
23. PLATESSA PLANA Storer. 
Has, hitherto, been taken from New York to Massachusetts ; 
I have lately seen it also in Maine. It is probably the most 
common flounder on the south-west Labrador coast. We 
met with it first, though but sparingly, at the St. Mary's 
Islands, and observed it as far easterly as Bras d'Or; where it 
is to be found in immense numbers, the bottom being almost 
alive with them, and of large size. It appears to be confined 
to harbors and inlets sheltered from the fury of the sea; as 
