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SEBASTES. 



The head and body compressed, with scales which on the head 

 proceed to or beyond the orbits; the back part of the head having a 

 few small spines. The first gill-cover armed. The dorsal fin single, 

 formed by a notch into spinous and soft divisions. 



BERGYLT. 



NORWAY HADDOCK. 



Perca marina, Linn-Sus. 



Sebastes Norvcgicus, Cuviee. Yarrell; Br. F., vol. i, p. 87. 



Holocentre Norvegien, Lacepede. 



Serranus Norvegicus, Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 212. 



Scorpcena Norvegica, Jentns; Manual, p. 3-1-7. 



" " Keport of Natural History Society of 



Dublin, 1856-7. 

 " " Guxtiier; Catalogue of Br. Museum, 



vol. ii, p. 95. 



This fish is a native of the Northern Ocean, being found as 

 far north as Greenland; and it is not uncommon on the coast 

 of Norway. Its appearance in Zetland also cannot be regarded 

 as strange, since it is sufficiently well known there as to have 

 obtained a familiar name. The terms Bergylt, Norwegian Carp, 

 and Norway Haddock, however inappropriate the latter may 

 be as signifying a likeness to Gadoid or Cod-like fishes, are 

 designations applied to it by fishermen of those islands. It 

 scarcely appears by its form to be well fitted for extensive 

 wandering; and yet several instances have occurred to shew 

 that its visits to the British Islands are not uncommon. 

 Pennant must have had authority for classing it among British 

 fishes, and Dr. Fleming had seen an example in Zetland. The 

 latter also reports its occurrence on the coast of Aberdeenshire; 



