DORSE. 



231 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



GADID/E. 



THE DORSE, 



OR VARIABLE COD. 



Morrkua callaiias, CUVIER, Hegne An. t. ii. p. 332. 

 ., ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 191. 



,, ,, WlLLUGHBY, p. 172, L. 1, fig. 1. 



Gadus ,, LINNAEUS. BLOCH, pt. ii. pi. 63. 



,i BERKENHOUT, Syn. edit. 1795, p. 67, sp. 2. 



,, ,, Variable Cod, PENN. Brit. Zoo!, vol. iii. p. 239. 



,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 441. 



THE authority upon which this species was originally 

 introduced into the catalogue of British Fishes seems now to 

 be questionable. Neither Berkenhout nor the naturalists 

 who have followed him, in including the name of it, appear to 

 have seen any British example ; and Dr. Fleming, who from 

 his northern locality was the most likely to have seen speci- 

 mens, mentions it only on the authority of others, and does 

 not number it in his series of species. Since the publication 

 of the first edition of this work, Mr. Thompson of Belfast 

 has recorded in the Annals of Natural History the occurrence 

 of this species both in the North and South of Ireland, 

 namely, the counties of Antrim and Cork. 



It appears to be a fish well known in the Baltic, and fre- 



