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GEEENLAND BULLHEAD. 
SEA SCORPION. GREENLAND COTTUS. 
Gottus Grcenlandicus, Proceedings of the Natural History Society 
of Dublin, for the Session 1856-7, p. 61. 
“ Gunther; Catalogue of Br, Museum, vol. 
ii, p. 161. 
“ Yareell; Br. Pishes, 2nd. Supplement by 
Sir John Bichardson, p. 1. 
This is again a fish which was long confounded with the 
Common Father-lasher; and although its greatly superior size 
might have been sufficient to raise a doubt in the minds of 
observers of their being the same, the mistake has been corrected 
only in recent times. It is a native of the Northern Ocean, 
and is found on the American as well as on the European 
side of the Atlantic; but further to the south m the former, 
from the greater degree of cold that usually exists on the 
eastward than on the westward side of any continent. 
No more than two instances are known of its having been 
taken in the British Islands ; and both of these occurred in 
Ireland; of which we have the following account in the 
Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, above 
referred to. Our figure also is borrowed from the same source, 
but is closely similar to that which is given by Sir J. Eichardson, 
from an American example:— “It was taken in Dingle harbour. 
County of Kerry, in the month of February, 1850, when 
drawing a scan for sand-smelts. Its beautiful and vivid 
colouring attracted the attention of Mr. B. Hilliard, Agent to 
the Eoyal Irish Fisheries Company, who, presuming it to be 
of rare occurrence, at once forwarded it to Mr. Andrews, the 
Manager of the Company.” 
