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Another, which is also taken in the ocean, is Mer- 

 liiccim barbatus, Duham, II. pi. xxv. f. 4. Phycis 

 blenno'ides, Schn. ; Gadus albidus, Gm. ; Blennius 

 gado'ides, Risso. ; Gadus furcatus, Penn., &c. The 

 first dorsal more raised ; and its first ray very much 

 elongated. The ventrals twice as long as the head \ 



Raniceps, <^ 



Have the head more depressed than phycis and all 

 the other gadi ; and the anterior dorsal so small that 

 it is lost, as it were, in the thickness of the skin. 



As yet we have none except from the ocean 2 . 



We cannot approximate the following genus to any 

 but the Gadi. 



Macrourus, Block. Lepidoleprus, Risso. 



Their suborbitals unite together in front, and with the 

 nasal bones, to form a depressed muzzle, which ad- 

 vances beyond the mouth, and under which the latter 



1 I have given the above characters, having had both the fishes 

 under my inspection. The Batrachoides Gmelini, Risso, first ed. 

 f. 16, does not differ from our first species. 



Add Enchelyopus Americanus, Schn., or Blennius chubs, Nat. de 

 Berlin, vii. 143 ; or Gadus longipes, Mitch. I. 4. 



N.B. The fig. of Schn. pi. vi. is erroneously referred to Phycis 

 tinea, as has been well observed by M. de la Roche, Ann. du Mus. 

 xiii. p. 333. ; it is rather that of G. longipes. 



2 Gadus raninus, Mull. Zool. Dan. pi. xlv. Blennius raninus, 

 Gmel. ; Batrachoides blennioidcs, Lacep. ; Phycis ranina, Bl., Schn. 

 57. Gadus trifurcalus, Penn. Brit. Zool. III. pi. xxxii. ; Phycis 

 fusca, Schn. 



