270 Storer’s Observations on the Fishes, &c. 
nook near by, called Pirate’s Cove, we subsequently observed 
several others speared by the Indians by torchlight. 
27. Ammopyres Americanus De Kay. 
Has ranged from New York to Massachusetts. Richardson 
quotes from Fabricius a description of a species found in 
Greenland and, as he thinks, also in Labrador, which, without 
having seen a specimen, he decides to be the same as the 
European A. lancea. 
After a careful comparison, however, of the Labrador fish. 
with specimens from Cape Cod, and with another from New- 
foundland, presented me some time since by Dr. Wheatland 
of Salem, I am compelled to consider them all the America- 
nus. The Labrador fish may be perhaps a little plumper, but 
there are not sufficient characteristics to warrant a distinct 
species. It certainly is not the lancea. 
We found it abundant at Red Bay, where, like the Capelin 
and Herring, it is used as bait in the Cod fishery. 
28. Acantuias Americanus Storer. 
Has been noticed from New York to Massachusetts. I 
have seen it in Maine, and Dr. De Kay states also that it has 
been taken to the north, beyond the coast of Labrador. 
We found it early in August at Bras d’Or and Red Bay, 
and subsequently saw large numbers taken off Shelburne at the 
south-west extremity of Nova Scotia. 
29. Scymnus sREviPINNA De Kay. 
A jaw of this shark was obtained at Bras d’Or, where it 
had been taken, and I am inclined to think that it is bd pn 
means uncommon upon the Labrador coast. 
