^06 MALACOP. SUB-BRACH. COD FAMILY. 



juries to which most other animals would taV^ 

 victims. 



In the Firth of Forth, Ling are taken principally 

 about the Isle of May, where they are found more 

 plentifully than further up the estuary ; occasionally 

 small ones are met with near Inchkeith, but scarcely 

 ever above Queensferry. * The Edinburgh market 

 seems, at times, to be well supplied with them. 



The range of this species extends northwards as 

 far as Greenland; it is plentiful on the coasts of 

 Norway, 900,000 pounds weight being annually 

 exported from that country. We are unacquainted 

 with its southern limit. 



The specific name, moha^ first applied to this 

 fish by Charleton, is said by Cuvier to be a corrup- 

 tion of Morrhua : liTig is synonymous with the 

 northern words laenga and loenge^ and means long. 



(Sp. 159.) L. T>ulgaris. The Burbot. The de- 

 pressed head of this fish, its nearly cylindrical body, 

 and the oval and pointed tail, give it rather a pecu- 

 liar and not very pleasing aspect, while its smooth, 

 slippery, and slimy skin does not invest it with any- 

 additional attractions. It reminds one in several 

 respects of the eel, to which it likewise bears a re- 

 semblance in its habits. It is this similarity that 

 has caused it to be named the Eel-pout, and has 

 afforded Mr. Swainson more plausibility than he 

 usually possesses on such occasions, in considering 

 the family of the Gadidas as representatives of the 

 Apodal order among the soft-rayed tribes, Th* 

 * Mem. Wem. Soc, vol. vii. p. 353. 



