446 Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 
According to Fabricius, Myoxocephalus graenlandicus is 
‘abundant in all the bays and inlets of Greenland, but prefers a 
stony coast clothed with seaweed. It approaches the shore in 
Fig. 391.—California Miller’s Thumb, Cottus gulosus Girard. McCloud River,Cal. 
(Photograph by Cloudsley Rutter.) 
spring and departs in winter. It is very voracious, preying on 
everything that comes in its way and pursuing incessantly the 
smaller fish, not sparing the young of its own species, and devour- 
ing crustacea and worms. It is very active and bold, but does 
not come to the surface unless it be led thither in pursuit of 
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Fic. 392.—Pribilof Sculpin, Myoxocephalus niger (Bean). St. Paul Island, 
Bering Sea. 
other fish. It spawns in December and January and deposits 
its red-colored roe on the seaweed. It is easily taken with a 
bait, and constitutes the daily food of the Greenlanders, who 
are very fond of it. They eat the roe raw.” 
The little sculpin, or grubby, of the New England coast is 
Myoxocephalus eneus, and the larger eighteen-spined sculpin is 
Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus. Still more numerous and 
