Class IV. VIVIPAROUS BLENNY. 



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which reach the lower half of the dorfal fin ; they 

 are black, half encircled with white. 



The vent is in the middle of the body j the anal 

 fin extends from it almoft to the tail. 



The tail is rounded, and of a yellow color. 



The back and fides are of a deep olive: the 

 belly whitifh. 



Muftela marina vivipara, Acl- 

 . quappe, Ael-puet, Ael- 

 moder. Scho/ievelde, 50. 

 Tab. 4. 



Guffer, Eelpout. Sib. Scot. 

 III. 25. 



Muftela vivipara Scbone-ueldii. 

 Wil lah. 122. Rati fyn. 

 fife. 69. 



Blennius capite dorfoque fufco 

 flavefcente lituris nigris, pin- 

 na ani flava. Arted.fynon. 45. 



Blennius viviparus, B. ore 94. Vivipa* 

 tentaculis duobus. Lin.fyft. Rous. 



443- 

 Tanglake. Faun. Suec. No. 



317. Muf. Ad. Fr. I. 69. 

 Tab. 32. 

 Enchelyopus corpore lituris 

 variegato; pinna dorfi ad 

 caudam finuata. Gronov* 

 Zoopk. No. 265. 



nCHONEFELDE firft difcovered this fpecies; 



, Sir Robert Sibbald afterwards found it on the 

 Scotch coafts * 9 and Linnxus has defcribed it in his 

 account of his Swedijh Majefty's Mufeum. 



They are viviparous, bringing forth two or three 

 hundred young at a time. Their feafon of partu- 

 rition is a little after the depth of winter. Before 

 Midfummer they quit the bays and mores, and re- 

 tire into the deep, where they are commonly tak- 



P 2 en. 



