225 

 Scorpænidæ. 



Sebastes marinus Linné. 



Off ïasiusak. Drifting among the ice. 26. 8. 1899. 

 1 specim. 91 mm. 



Off Angmagsalik. 140 fms. 18. 9. 1900. Trawl. 1 specim. 

 About 190 mm. 



Sermilik at Angmagsalik. 1901. I specim. About 200 mm. 



The numbers of the rays in the fins of these three speci- 

 mens are: D. 1.5 + 14—15. A. 3 + 8—9. P. 19. V. 1 + 5. 



G. Holm (1. с p. 54) mentions the Rose-fish among the 

 fish eaten by the inhabitants of Angmagsalik, but they only get 

 it when the Crested-Seal [Cystophora cristata Erxl.) brings it 

 to the surface, they do not catch it themselves, of course be- 

 cause they are not acquainted with hook-fishing, and the rose- 

 fish is, as is well known, a deep-sea fish. 



Sören Jensen brought home a lot of young ones about 

 25 — 30 mm. long, caught by the Greenlanders at the «Angmag- 

 sæt» -station at Angmagsalik. They were arranged in a long 

 row, with heads alternating, drawn on a string, and rolled up 

 into a bundle with a string tied round it. Jensen told me 

 that such bundles serve as toys for the Greenland-children. 

 Holm therefore presumably refers to the young ones of S. 

 marinus when he writes (I.e. p. 82): «Some quite small fishes 

 called iterdlarnat are treated in the same way (viz. as the 

 Angmagsæt [Mallotus villosus Müll.j), but presumably only for 

 diversion.» M 



*) During the printing of this, I was informed by Commander G. Holm 

 that a roll of «iterdlarnat» had been presented by him to our Ethno- 

 graphical Museum. The director of the said Museum allowed me kindly 

 to examine this roll, and it turned out to be made up just of the Se- 

 bastes marinus-hy, of the same size, and handled in the same way as 

 that already mentioned. 



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