398 THE ZOOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



Pleuronedes americanus Walb. Flounder. Whole 

 southern coast. (Stearns.) 



Cyclopterus lumpus Linn. Strait of Belle Isle. 



Gadus arenosus Mitchill. Eight specimens from 

 Sloop Harbor, collected in July. From a careful com- 

 parison I am satisfied that these specimens are the same 

 species as the common cod of New England, the Gadus 

 and Morrhua americana of authors, and which Prof. 

 Gill considers as identical with the Gadus arenosus of 

 Mitchill. Prof. Gill also has considered specimens of 

 the cod from Labrador, which he had examined, as iden- 

 tical with our common species. (Putnam.) 



It happened that our vessel touched at the different 

 harbors from Mecatina Island in the St. Lawrence Gulf 

 to Hopedale, a distance of over six hundred miles, at 

 times when the cod was successively making its first ap- 

 pearance. Thus at Gore Island, near Little Mecatina 

 Island, we found the cod was just beginning to be taken 

 by the fishermen, June i6. A few were seined July 6th, 

 at Square Island, on the Atlantic coast. July 12th they 

 were evidently breeding, as the females were full of 

 spawn, their livers poor, with little oil in them, and the 

 fish were generally in poor condition. At Tub Island 

 Harbor, which is situated on the south side of Hamilton 

 Inlet, the fishery had not begun July 17th. Three days 

 later a few were seined at Sloop Harbor, on the north 

 side of Hamilton or Invuctoke Inlet, while at Strawberry 

 Harbor, about fifty miles to the northward, they were 

 caught in abundance on the 25th of July. The season 

 was so cold and stormy, owing to the presence of the 

 drift ice in an unusual quantity, and for a much longer 

 period than for many years previous, that the fishery 



