FISHES OF LORAIN COUNTY. 33 



Family XXIII. COTTID./E. The Sculpins. 



88. Cottiis richartlsoni Agassiz. Star-gazer. "Mud' 

 Head." 



[Jord. Man. 406. O. St. Surv. 161.] 



A big-headed little fish with a tapering body, large pectoral 

 fins, short, low spinous dorsal fin, longer, higher soft dorsal, eyes set 

 close together on top of head; color reddish, blotched and speckled 

 with darker. Length 3 to 6 inches. 



Common in Spring Brook and Chance Creek, not detected 

 elsewhere in the county. 



Family XXIV. GADID^. The Codfishes. 



89. Lota maculosa (Le Sueur). Burbot. Lawyer. 



[Jord. Man. 453. O. St. Surv. 163.] 



A long, large-mouthed, small-scaled fish that looks like a cross 

 between a catfish and an eel, brownish-yellow, usually thickly mot- 

 tled with darker, belly lighter, lower jaw with one long barbel. 

 (See plate 4.) 



Common in the lake, not detected in the streams. 



