88 WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



Linnaeus in his genus Perca, both in the Systema Nature 

 and in the Fauna Suecica, and was confounded with the 

 Perca marina, which, according to Cuvier, can be no other 

 than the Serranus scriba of the Mediterranean : the words 

 of Linnaeus, " Habitat in Norvegia, Italia,'''' attached to his 

 Perca marina, have induced authors to suppose that the 

 Northern fish was also an inhabitant of the Southern Seas. 



Pennant has engraved his Perca marina, and the figure 

 has supplied the means of identifying his fish as the Sebastes 

 Norvegicus of Cuvier. 



This -species inhabits all the Northern Seas, and is found 

 in the deep bays on the southern coast of Greenland, where 

 it is caught with baited hooks attached to very long lines : 

 its general food is a small species of flat fish, Pleuronectes 

 cynoglossum, which is there abundant. According to Fabri- 

 cius, the flesh of Sebastes, though lean, is agreeable to the 

 taste, and is eaten either cooked or dried ; he states also, that 

 the Greenlanders use the spines for needles. 



Dr. Fleming obtained this fish in Zetland, where it is 

 called Bergylt, and Norway Haddock ; in several more 

 Northern languages it is called by names that have reference 

 to its prevailing red colour. " The late Dr. Skene, v> says 

 Dr. Fleming, " observed this fish on the Aberdeenshire coast." 

 Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick, has also obtained it on 

 the shore of his own county ; and I saw a well-preserved 

 specimen of this fish, about twelve inches long, in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; but 

 this last example, if I recollect rightly, was obtained of the 

 master of a Norwegian vessel. 



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D. 15 -(- 15 : P. 19 : V. 1 + 5 : A. 3 + 8 : C. 14. 



The figure here given is taken from the plate of this fish 

 in the Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. The peculiarities 



