HAKE. 261 



edition, and which now, for comparison, is inserted as a 

 tail-piece, does not sufficiently exhibit the elongation of 

 the rays at the posterior part of the second dorsal and anal 

 fin, the rays being represented as rather adpressed, and ap- 

 pearing shorter than they were intended to be. This has, 

 I fear, led to some misconception, as the following extracts 

 seem to show. 



In a communication from the Rev. R. T. Lowe, M.A. 

 printed in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the 

 year 1840, page 36, describing certain new species of Ma- 

 deiran Fishes, and containing additional information relating 

 to those already described, Mr. Lowe observes, " The Ma- 

 deiran Hake, or Pescada, Merlucius vulgaris of my Syn- 

 opsis, page 189, proves, upon better acquaintance, distinct 

 from the common British Hake, Cuvier, Yarrell, he. Gadus 

 merlucius, Linn. Instead of being even, the dorsal and 

 anal fins are each produced at their hinder end into a rounded 

 lobe ; the jaws are nearly equal in length ; the teeth are large 

 and numerous ; the scales small. I do not name it, for I 

 believe it has already been called by Mr. Swainson M. sinu- 

 atus ; and I am doubtful whether it may not also be the 

 M. escidentus of Risso, vol. iii. p. 220, though in his syno- 

 nyms he has confounded it with the true Northern Hake. I 

 believe it to be the fish imperfectly figured long ago by 

 Salvianus, p. 73, copied by Willughby, t. L. membr. 2, n. 1, 

 which has usually been referred to also as the Northern 

 Hake." 



Mr. Swainson's remarks in his Natural History and Clas- 

 sification of Monocardian Animals, more especially Fishes, 

 vol. i. p. 319, are as follow : " To the first of these (the 

 Merluciruz), named by Rafinesque Merlucius, after the 

 Gadus merlucius of Linnaeus, belongs the common Hake, 

 peculiar to the Northern seas, with which the Mediterranean 

 Hake (M. sinuatus, Sw. fig. 73), now for the first time 



