1 84 BIB. Class IV. 



The color of the body is white, but more ob~ 

 fcure on the back than the belly, and tinged with 

 yellow. 



It is called at Scarborough a Kkg* It is a very 

 delicate fifh. 



jpo* Bib. Afellus Darius, Dwergdorfch, Gadus dorfo tripterygio, orft 



Krumftert? Scbonevelde, 20. cirrato, officulo pinnarum 



Bib & Blinds Cornubienjibus. ventralium primo in longam 



WiL Icth. 169. fetam produ&o. Arted.fynon. 



Afellus lufcus. Raiijyn. pifc. 35. 



54. Gadus lufcus. Lin.fyft, 437. 



THIS fpecies grows to the length of one foot. 

 The greateft depth three inches and a half. 

 The fcales are large, and fo far from adhering to 

 the fkin, as is afTerted by naturalifts, are extreme- 

 ly deciduous. 



The body is deep, the fides compreffed. The 

 eyes covered with a loofe membrane, which it can 

 blow up at pleafure, like a bladder. The mouth 

 is fmall : beneath the chin a beard, an inch long. 

 In the firft dorfal fin twelve rays : in the fecond, 

 which is longed, twenty-three: in the third, twenty. 

 The pectoral fins about fixteen : the ventral fix 

 or feven, of which the firft ray is long, and feta- 



ceous : 



