iS6 C O A L F I S H. Class IV. 



vered with a ldofe membrane : on the gill- covers, 

 and the jaws are on each fide, nine pun&ures. 



The firft dorfal fin has twelve rays •, the fecond 

 nineteen -, the third feventeen. 



The pe&oral fins thirteen ; the ventral fins fix : 

 the firft anal fin twenty-feven ; the fecond feven- 

 teen. 



The color on the back is a light brown i on 

 the belly a dirty white. 



We owe the difcovery of this kind in our feas to 

 the Rev. Mr. J ago. 



** Three dorfal fins : chin beardlefs, 



78. Coal. Colfifch. Belon, 128. 168. Raiijyti.pifc.^. 



Colfifch Anglorum. Gefnerpifc. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 



89. imberbi, maxilla inferiore 



Afellus niger. Kolfifch. Koler. longiore et linea lateral! 



Schonevelde, 19. re&a. Arted. fynon 34. 



Cole fifti Septentrionalium Gadus carbonarius. Lin. fyfi. 



anglorum. Ravvlin Pollack 438. Gronov. Zooph. No* 



Cornubienftujn. Wil. pi/c. 317. 



THE coal fifti takes its name from the black 

 color that it fometimes afTumes. Belon calls 

 it the Colfifch, imagining it was fo named by the 

 Englifh, from its producing the Ictbyocolla, but 

 Qejner gives the true etymology, 



Thefe 



