A Three-Eyed Haddock, with Notes on Other Three-Eyed Fishes

Is the New York Herald-Tribunie for October 9, 1927, was an announcement of the capture by a fisherman on the fishing schooner "Marjorie Parker" of a three-eyed haddock in the south channel of Boston Harbor. Here it was stated that "the third eye is midway between the normal ones." In the rotogravure section of the New York Times for the following Sunday (October 16) was a picture with the following caption: "The oddest fish in the sea . . . a haddock caught off Boston, which was found to have three perfect eyes, the third in the middle of the head." I then set to work to find the original of the photograph published in the Ti;eMees. Presently I got in touch with Air. J. V. Dumas, sales manager of the "New York Times Wide World Photos," who courteously sent me a copy of the figure referred to above and what is more to the purpose of this article lie also sent a photograph showing the head in closer view than is seen in the figure in the Times. This third eye is placed on the back of the head in the mnedian line and looks like a perfectly good eye. Both these figures are herein reproduced as Nos. 1 and 2. The first photograph is in the original 8 by 10 inches in size and shows a m-nan holding the fish in his hand. This has been cut down so as here to show in Fig. 1 the fish, the hand holding it and part of the man's coat. From the second photograph (which is of the same size) the head of the fish has been cut out and is reproduced as Fig. 2. The first figure shows that the head (when compared to the size of the hand holding it) is evidently that of an adult fish. This does not show the eye clearly. 559