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bb. Lower jaw not protruding beyond upper; barbel well developed; 
caudal not concave behind. 
c. Lateral line pale. 
d. Vent in front of second dorsal; size small. MICROGADUS 
dd. Vent below second dorsal; size large. GADUS 
cc. Lateral line black. MELANOGRAMMUS 
aa. Anal forming a continuous fin or sometimes deeply notched; dorsal not 
divided as 3 fins. 
é. Dorsal divided into 2 fins. 
f. Lotin#. Ventrals broad, each of about 6 rays; vomer 
with teeth. LOTA 
ff. Puycina. Ventrals very slender, each of 2 or 3 rays. 
PHYCIS 
ee. BRosMINa. Dorsal continuous, undivided; mouth large. 
BROSME 
Genus Po_Lacutus Bonaparte. 
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The Pollocks. 
Pollachius virens (Linneus). 
Pollock. 
Head 334; depth 43/,; D. 14-20-1v, 15, 1; A. v, 18-v1, 16; 
P. 11, 20; V. 1, 5; snout 24% in head, measured from tip of upper 
jaw; eye 1014; maxillary 2%; interorbital space 3% ; mandible 
2% in head, measured from its own tip; pectoral 214; ventral 
4% ; first branched dorsal ray of first dorsal 31/,) ; same of second 
dorsal 3'/,); same of third dorsal 5; same of first anal 334 ; same 
of second anal 5 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 434 ; lower caudal 
lobe 2. Body rather long, well compressed, deepest anteriorly. 
Head rather large and compressed. Snout conic. Eye small. 
Mouth oblique and rather small, mandible protruding in front. 
Teeth in jaws more or less uniform. Color of skin leaden-gray, 
turning to dusky olive-black above and on back and inclining 
more to whitish on lower surface. Lateral line pale. Dorsals 
and caudal dusky. Anals pale like belly, marginally darker. 
Pectoral brownish. Ventral whitish. Iris leaden. Length 39 
inches. Probably off Long Branch early in 1903. 
A large fish of the north Atlantic, chiefly north of our shores. 
Known to me only from the above example, now in the State 
