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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. 
Buffalo Sculpin. 
Plate XY, 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 scutellae 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. Ventrals uniform yellowish white ; other fins mottled yellow and black. 
Syn.— Aspicotlus 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. 
ARTEDIUS 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. — Artedius 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. 
Calycilepidolus lateralis, Ayues, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1,1855, 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 XYII, 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. 
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