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is white and firm when cooked, and of delicate flavor, although somewhat dry. They enter the 
mouths of small creeks at high water, retreating with the tide. As elsewhere, they are bold, 
greedy feeders, and give the angler much annoyance when fishing for other and better fish by 
constantly nibbling off his bait and frequently insisting upon being hooked. I have taken them 
with ordinary clam bait, and also with the revolving spoon. The Indians generally procure 
them by spearing. A fish of this species, obtained by me at Fort Steilacoom in January, 1854, 
presented the following appearance: Upper parts of head and back yellowish brown, tinged 
with green; belly and lower parts white; lateral line yellowish white; pectoral fins brownish 
olive, tipped with very pale yellow, and crossed with four bars of bright yellow; ventral and 
anal fins yellowish white; caudal olive, crossed with three partial yellowish bands. The colors 
of this individual are a fair sample of those generally found in the species. 
ASPICOTTUS BISON, Grd. 
Bulfalo Sculpin. 
Plate XV, Fig. 1. 
Sp. Ch. —The posterior extremity of the maxillary extends to a vertical line drawn midway between the posterior edge of 
the pupil and the posterior rim of the orbit. The seutellae constituting the lateral line are crowded, vertically elongated. 
Upper regions dark greenish brown, mottled or blotched with black. Beneath dull yellowish, with meandric dark lines under 
the head and throat. Yentrals uniform yellowish white; other fins mottled yellow and black. 
Syn. — Jlspicottus bison, Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VII, 1854, 130; &, VIII, 1856, 133.— Ib. Gen. Rep. Fishes, p. 66. 
Clypeocottus robustus, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc. I, 1854, 11. 
This toad-fish or sculpin is not uncommon in the waters of Puget Sound. In habits it 
resembles the preceding species, but seems to confine itself more to deep water. A specimen, 
caught in January, 1854, had twelve ovoid brownish lilac spots on the iris, which was itself 
dingy white. 
AKTEDIUS NOTOSPILOTUS, Grd. 
Ayres’ Sculpin. 
Plate XXII b, Figs. 5 & 6. 
Sp. Ch.—S urface of head sub-tuberculous and scaly. Preopercle armed with a flat tricuspid spine. Anterior margin of first 
dorsal situated in advance of the beginning of the dorsal band of scales, which is broad, and extends from the thoracic arch to 
near the terminus of the base of the second dorsal. Olivaceous, with a series of saddle-like black patches. Abdomen dull yellow 
or white. 
Syn. — Jlrtedius notospilotus, Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VIII, 1856, 134; &, in Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI, 1857; PI. 
xxiv, figs. 5 and 6.— Ib. Gen. Rep. Fishes, p. 71. 
Calycilepidotws lateralis, Ayres, Proc. Cal, Acad. Nat. Sc. I, 1855, 77 
But a single specimen of this fish was obtained by me. It was taken by Lieutenant Murden, 
of the United States revenue service, from Puget Sound, near Port Townsend. No notes were 
made of its habits. 
ZANIOLEPIS LATIPINNIS, Grd. 
Rough Sculpin. 
Plate XVII, Figs. 5 & 6. 
Sp. Ch. —Three small spines upon the convexity of the preopercle. First dorsal much longer than the second, with its two 
anterior rays protracted beyond the others. Anal fin longer than the soft dorsal, and provided with three spinous rays. Upper 
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