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Yellow Tom-Cod, — Tomcodus Liiteus — hav- 

 ing the sides yellowish, as well as the margin of 

 the abdomen. 



Yellow-white Tom-Cod, — Tomcodus Luteo- 

 Pallidus — a mixture of white and yellow, with 

 shades also of brown and olive. 



Frost-Fish, — Tomcodus, Pruinosus — so called 

 because more abundant inshore at the setting in of 

 frosts in November, but it is only then seeking a 

 retreat in bays, &:c., for the coming winter. 



Mixed Tom-Cod, — Tomcodus Mixfus. This 

 too is altogether an imaginary variety — age, sex, 

 and the season, are constantly modifying the ap- 

 pearance. 



GEN. RANICEPS. 



Blenny, — BIen7iius Viviparus, — [Rmiiceps 

 Trifurcatus, Cuv.] If the specimen before us, the 

 true viviparous blenny, is not an eel, it is very 

 certain that it does not belong to the gadus family, 

 where, in this dilemma, we have unluckily placed 

 it. Linnaeus has a distinct genus, hlennius, but 

 the individual now being described, a well marked 

 representative of the family, as they are found in 

 this state, does not precisely accord with the de- 

 scriptions of the blenny by English writers. 



On looking over that splendid series of German 

 lithographic plates of fishes, by Dr Strach, 1828, 

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