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Coitus quadricornis Linné. 



Turner Sund. 2—0 fms. 25.7.1900. Eel-seine. 3 specim. 



Hekla Havn. 3—6 fms. 20.8.1891. Dredge. I specim. 



Hurry Inlet, the south coast of Jameson Land. Just near 

 the beach, in very shallow water. 3.8. 1891. 4 specim. (Fry). 



Hurry Inlet. Near the inmost part of the fjord. 3 — fms. 

 3. 8. 1900. Eel-seine. 7 specim. 



Hurry Inlet. In pools on the beach. 7. 8. 1900. 7 specim. 

 (Fry). 



Hurry Inlet. Near the coast. 1, 8. 1900. Eel-seine. 

 1 specim. 



Hurry Inlet. 7—0 fms. 7—8.8.1900. Seine. 3 specim. 



Sabine Ö. 5—3 fms. 12.7.1900. Dredge. 1 specim. 



Three specimens were taken by the second German polar- 

 expedition at Кар Broer Ruys, on July 15**^ 1870. 



Lönnberg (1. с. p. 13) mentions it amongst the fishes 

 taken by the Ко It'h of f- expedition 1900 at the North-eastern 

 Greenland. 



Prof. W. Peters, who examined the specimens of the 

 Germania- expedition classed them among Cottus hexacornis 

 Richardson M which he however regards as being closely 

 related to C. quadricornis L. of the Baltic ^). He says about 

 this matter: «Verglichen mit einem Exemplar von С. qua- 

 dricornis L. haben die vorliegenden Exemplare etwas kürzere 

 Oberkiefer und die Interorbitalgegend mehr vertieft. Auch ist 

 die Flossenstrahlenzahl eine verschiedene, indem das grösste 



^) The name is as is well known confusing; Richardson had misunder- 

 stood his first notes, and ascribed to the «Bull-head» he had caught at 

 Coppermine, but lost later on, nasal spines of the same nature as the 

 characteristic horns on the front and occiput. Later on he again got 

 some specimens from the same part, and he then found out that they 

 ■were only C. quadricornis. 



^) Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt, 2. Bd., 1874, Zoologie, p. 169. 



