. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. WK. SCULPINS AND GURNARDS. Now the Sculpin is a little water beast which pretends to consider itself a fish, and, underthat pretext, about the piles on which West Boston Bridge is built, swallowing the bait and hook intended for flounders. On being drawn from the water, it exposes an immense head, a diminutive bony carcass, and a surface so lull of spines, ridges, ruffles and frills that the naturalists have not been abl
. American fishes : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. WK. SCULPINS AND GURNARDS. Now the Sculpin is a little water beast which pretends to consider itself a fish, and, underthat pretext, about the piles on which West Boston Bridge is built, swallowing the bait and hook intended for flounders. On being drawn from the water, it exposes an immense head, a diminutive bony carcass, and a surface so lull of spines, ridges, ruffles and frills that the naturalists have not been able to count them without quarreling about their number; and that the colored youth, whose sport they spoil do not like to touch them, and especially to tread on them unless they happen to have shoes on to cover the soles of their broad black feet. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table. /^\N our Atlantic coast are found several species of this family, generally ^"'^ known by the name " Sculpin," and also by such titles as " Grubby," "Puffing-grubby," "Daddy Sculpin," "Bullhead," "Sea-robin," "Sea- toad," and "; Their economic value is little or none, but they are important as scavengers, and are used for lobster bait. They are often a source of great annoyance to the fishermen by cumbering their hooks and by stealing their bait. The most abundant species is the Eighteen-spined Sculpin, Cottus octodecimspinosus, which frequents shallow and moderately deep waters from Labrador to New York. It is usually associated with a smaller species, Cottus ceneus, which may be called the " Pigmy Sculpin," and which ranges from the Bay of Furidy to New York. Cottus scorpius, of Europe, is represented on our coasts by C. scorpius sub-species grcenlandicus, which is abundant everywhere from New York to Greenland and Labrador. This sub-species has been found on the coast of Ireland,* and
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