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As will be seen from the table, the ova of cod and haddock have a diameter of 

 1-15 to 1-50 mm.; a number of safely determinable cod eggs 1-25 to 1-35, and 

 haddock eggs 1-30 to 1-45 mm. 



With regard to the pigmentation, the larvae of cod should most properly be taken 

 as belonging to the type described by Schmidt from the southern part of the North 

 sea ; it may perhaps be designed as a warm-water type, with extremely faint pigment. 

 Vide fig. 17, and, for comparison, also fig. 16, which shows a more northerly type. As 

 no larva of this type was available suitable for illustration purposes in the material, 

 one from Norway has here been used. 



On looking through the tables, we find a single haddock egg in the gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, and no haddock larvse; the material from here can therefore, practically 

 speaking, be taken as belonging to Gadus rallarms. 



Fig. 14. 



