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the Greenland coast, and was taken on the west side of Davis' Strait, in the 70th 

 parallel of latitude, on Sir Edward Parry's first expedition, and more recently near 

 Felix Harbour, in Regent's Inlet, by Captain James C. Ross. The same officer 

 observed it on the north side of Spitzbergen in 80^° of latitude. Fabricius says it 

 feeds upon young fish, small crustaceae, and marine conferva?. It is not eaten by 

 the Greenlanders. The fish of this sub-genus have only one dorsal, which is, like 

 the anal, pretty long : the body is smooth, elongated, and compressed towards the 

 tail. I have had no opportunity of comparing American specimens of the unc- 

 tuous sucker with the European fish, but Captain Sabine says that those taken in 

 Davis' Strait differ in no respect from the unctuous suckers of the English coast. 

 Captain James C. Ross states that the average length of those that came under 

 his observation, in his various voyages, was about three inches. 



Fabricius notices a liparis of a larger size, which is known to the Greenlanders 

 by the name of amersulak. Though this kind attains the length of a foot, and 

 agrees, he informs us, in many particulars with the cyclopterus gelatinosus of 

 Pallas, he does not think that it is a distinct species from the preceding one. 



The following notice of a fish of this family, which inhabits Behring's Strait, is 

 from the Appendix to Captain Beechey's Voyage. " Off St. Lawrence Island 

 was caught in a dredge, a fish apparently allied to the genus Liparis. It had the 

 ventral fins placed before the pectorals, but united and continuous with them ; a 

 flat, raised, and rough tubercle, of nearly the diameter of an English sixpence, was 

 seated forwards between the pectorals, its anterior part reaching as far as the ven- 

 trals : its cceca were pretty numerous (Collie). The roughness of this tubercle 

 renders it difficult to refer the fish to any known species, but it is probably nearly 

 related to the cyclopterus gelatinosus, Pallas, a liparis which is known to inhabit 

 the seas in which this was obtained. The existence of cceca removes it from 

 Lepadogaster of Gouan." Bennett, App., p. 50. 



