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COALFISH. 



RAUNING POLLACK. 



Anellus niger, 

 Gadus carbonarius. 

 Gade colin, 

 Gadus carbonarius, 



Merlangus carbonarius, 



Gadus virens (?) 



WILLOUGHBY; Table L., p. 168. 



LACEPEDE. Kisso. 



DONOVAN; pi. 13. But his figure is faulty, 

 not only in the colour, but in placing the 

 dorsal and anal fins too far separate from 

 each other. 



FLEMING; Br. Animals, p. 196. 



JENYNS; Manual, p. 466. 



YARRELL; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 250. 



GUNIHER; Cat. Br, M., vol. iv, p. 339. 



WHEN we seek for information from different sources on the 



natural history of fishes, we are liable to be misled by finding 



that different kinds are sometimes called by the same name, 



and more frequently that one species shall bear a multiplicity 



of names, even in districts not very distant from each other. 



In the history of our "Fishes of the British Islands" we have 



found it generally convenient to omit all reference to these 



local designations, as having little meaning attached to them, 



and which we should be well pleased to find discarded from 



the memory. But for once we depart from our rule that we 



may record an instance of these variations of denomination; 



and it seems the more appropriate in this instance, as it forms 



almost an integral portion of the history of the Coalfish, which 



is thus more diversely characterized than any other with which 



we are acquainted. In Ireland it, bears a different name 



according to its stage of growth: the very young being known 



as Gilpins, from which they grow to be Blockan and Greylords; 



and when of lull size they are Glashan, or Glossan, and Glassin. 



Moulrush and Black Pollack are other names, with Glassock; 



Billets and Billards in Yorkshire; Sey Pollack, Podley, Sillock, 



Cooth, Pittock, Sethe, Colmey, Harbin, Coalsey, Cudden, and 



Green Cod. Willoughby says it is called Rawlin Pollack in 



Cornwall, which is grounded in nothing more than error of 



