. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 310 BULLETIN OF THE BUKEAU OF FISHERIES. 132. Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas). Great Sculjriji. The collection contains 25 specimens, from to 13 inches long; collected in 1903, at the following places: Marrowstone Point; Cleveland Passage; stations 4270 and 4272, Litnik Bay; Karluk; Admiralty Head; Metlakatla; Funter Hay; Point Ellis; Port Alexander; Snug Harbor, and Yakutat. The species was seen also at Dundas, Pablof, Sitkoh, and Uyak bays. These specimens show that there is considerable variatiim in the relative
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 310 BULLETIN OF THE BUKEAU OF FISHERIES. 132. Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas). Great Sculjriji. The collection contains 25 specimens, from to 13 inches long; collected in 1903, at the following places: Marrowstone Point; Cleveland Passage; stations 4270 and 4272, Litnik Bay; Karluk; Admiralty Head; Metlakatla; Funter Hay; Point Ellis; Port Alexander; Snug Harbor, and Yakutat. The species was seen also at Dundas, Pablof, Sitkoh, and Uyak bays. These specimens show that there is considerable variatiim in the relative distances between the supraocular spines themselves and the occipital spines. The distance seems to l)e relatively greater in the young examples than in the older ones. In the larger .specimens the general color is much darker than in the smaller ones, the light colors, especially posteriorly, fading into darker; belly and ventral tins distinctly mottled and spotted. In all the smaller examples the lielly is pale and there are 3 very distitict dark bars across the body: the first under the sixth to eighth dorsal spines, extending slightly forward and downward across base of pectoral; the second under soft dorsal, l:)eginning under the third ray, and extending under nearly full length of fin and downward nearly to anal, this bar more or less broken at its center and sometimes divided, form- ing 2 bars, which may be called second and third, 1 over anterior, the other over posterior part of soft dorsal: the last bar (.fourth when the second is divided, otherwise third) covering posterior part of caudal Fig. (17.—Myoxoepph;il(is (Pallas). Mr. Rutter secured at Karluk,-June S-10, 1903, 18 very small specimens one-half to 1 inch long and 3 specimens to 6 inches long. The 6-inch specimen had in its stomach 4 Bhnnicottus acuticeps, each inches long and 1 Pholis ornntus 4 inches limg. They were very little digested, the Pholis- ornatus scarce
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