The chief genus of Atlantic sculpins is _Myoxocephalus_, containing large marine species, in structure much like the species of _Cottus_. _Myoxocephalus bubalis_ is the European fatherlasher, or proach; the European sculpin is _Myoxocephalus scorpius_. The very similar daddy sculpin of New England is _Myoxocephalus grœnlandicus_. This species swarms everywhere from Cape Cod northward. [Illustration: FIG. 391.—California Miller's Thumb, _Cottus gulosus_ Girard. McCloud River, Cal. (Photograph by Cloudsley Rutter.) ] According to Fabricius, _Myoxocephalus grœnlandicus_ is "abundant in all the bays and inlets of Greenland, but prefers a stony coast clothed with seaweed. It approaches the shore in spring and departs in winter. It is very voracious, preying on everything that comes in its way and pursuing incessantly the smaller fish, not sparing the young of its own species, and devouring crustacea and worms. It is very active and bold, but does not come to the surface unless it be led thither in pursuit of other fish. It spawns in December and January and deposits its red-colored roe on the seaweed. It is easily taken with a bait, and constitutes the daily food of the Greenlanders, who are very fond of it. They eat the roe raw." [Illustration: FIG. 392.—Pribilof Sculpin, _Myoxocephalus niger_ (Bean). St. Paul Island, Bering Sea. ] The little sculpin, or grubby, of the New England coast is _Myoxocephalus æneus_, and the larger eighteen-spined sculpin is _Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus_. Still more numerous and varied are the sculpins of the North Pacific, _Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus_ being the best known and most widely diffused. _Oncocottus quadricornis_ is the long-horned sculpin of the Arctic Europe, entering the lakes of Russia and British America. _Triglopsis thompsoni_ of the depths in our own Great Lakes seems to be a dwarfed and degenerate descendant of _Oncocottus_. [Illustration: FIG. 393.—18-spined Sculpin, _Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus_ (Mitchill). Beasley Point, N. J. ] [Illustration: FIG. 394.—_Oncocottus quadricornis_ (L.). St. Michael, Alaska. ]