274 GAD1DE. 



SUBBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. GADIDJS. 



THE FOUR-BEARDED ROCKLING. 



Motella cimbria, The Four-bearded Rockling, PARNELL, Wern. Mem. vol. vii. 



p. 449, pi. 44. 

 Gadus cimbrius, LINN^US, Syst. Nat. p. 440, sp. 16. 



RETZ, Faun. Suec. p. 323. 



Enchelyopus cimbrtcus, SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. p. 50, sp. 1, tab. 9. 

 Motella cimbrica, NILSSON, Prod. Ichth. Scand. p. 48, sp. 2. 



THIS species of Motella^ first described by Linnaeus, is 

 included by Dr. Parnell in his description of tlie Fishes of 

 the Forth, a specimen, fourteen inches in length, having 

 been brought to him by a Newhaven fisherman, who had 

 caught it a little to the east of Inchkeith on a Haddock line 

 baited with muscles. It is a species perfectly distinct from 

 the Three or the Five-bearded Rockling, so much more 

 common on various parts of the coast, and may at once be 

 distinguished from either by the greater length of the fila- 

 ment, which is placed in advance of the almost obsolete 

 first dorsal fin. This filament in a fish of nine inches 

 long, measures one inch and seven-eighths ; and in another 

 fish of ten inches and a half in length, measures two inches 

 and a quarter, as I find from portions of two specimens 



