Dr. Storer's Supplement. 267 
SUPPLEMENT 
TO THE 
ICHTHYOLOGICAL REPORT. 
Sınce the report on the Fishes has passed through 
the press, I have had an opportunity, by the polite- 
ness of Mr. John S. Sleeper, Editor of the “ Mer- 
cantile Journal,” of examining a specimen of the 
“ Lophius piscatorius,” Sea-Devil; and as the ac- 
count embodied in my report was extracted from 
Yarrell’s “British Fishes,” I would present a de- 
scription here from a recent specimen, that the 
ichthyologist may judge for himself, as to my cor- 
rectness in considering our fish the same as Hi 
foreign species. ? 
Length of the specimen before me, two feet sa 
one inch; width across, in front of the pectorals, 
one foot; length of the head, from the tip of the 
= snout to the occiput, six inches. All the upper part 
‘of the body is of a dark brown color, caused by very 
minute irregular markings; body beneath, white. 
Numerous fleshy cirrhi beneath the lower jaw, edging 
it to the angles; beyond these, they are continued 
. to the pectoral fins, and back of them, they are again 
continued to the tail; these cirrhi are beneath the LR 
jaw, nearly an inch in length; on the sides of the © 
_ body they are much smaller. The vertical gape of 
the mouth, when expanded, is five inches; the dis- 
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