Class IV. H A D O C K. 173 



belly is white, but they vary much, not only in 

 color* but in fhape, particularly that of the head. 



The fide line is white and broad, (trait, till it Side Line. 

 reaches oppofite the vent, when it bends towards 

 the tail. 



Aigrefin, ou aiglefin. Behn. 

 118. 



Tertia afellorum fpecies. Ron- 

 del. 277. 



Tertia afel. Sp. Eglefinus. 

 Gefner pifc. 86. 



Onos five aiinus veterum. 

 Turner epifi. ad. Gefner. 



Afellus minor, Schelfifch. 

 Scbonevelde. 18. 



Hadock. Wil, Ictb, 170. 



Rail Jyn. pifc. 55. 

 Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 

 cirrato, max. fup. longiore, 

 corpore albicante, cauda 

 parum bifurca. Arted. fynon, 



36. 



Gadus ^Eglefinus. G. tripte- 

 rygius cirratus albicans, 

 cauda biloba. Lin.fyjl. 435. 



Kolja. Faun. Suec. No. 306. 



Grono-v. Zoopb. No. 321. 



74. Hadock ; 



OUR countryman Turner conjectured this fpe- 

 cies to have been the Ov©-, or Afinus, of the 

 antients, and Belon that it was the Kfiof, and the 

 U§6€otT0i of Oppian, We have carefully confulted 

 molt of the antient naturalifts, but cannot difcover 

 any marks by which we can determine the fpecies 

 they intended. The words f Ok©-, J Afinus^ 



Name. 



* Codlings are often taken of a yellow, orange, and even 

 red color, while they remain among the rocks, but on changing 

 their place affume the color of other cod fifh 



f Arift, Hift, an. Lib.Vhl. c. 15. Oppian Halieut. I. 151, 

 III. 191. 



X Ovidii Halieut, Lin, 131. Plinii Lib, IX. r. 16. 17. 



N 2 



Afelks, 



