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Yellow Tom-Cod, Tomcodus Luteus 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, &cc., for the coming winter. 



Mixed Tom-Cod, Tomcodus Mixtus. This 

 too is altogether an imaginary variety age, sex, 

 and the season, are constantly modifying the ap- 

 pearance. 



GEN. RANICEPS. 



BLENNY, Blennius Vimparus, [Raniceps 

 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. Linna3us has a distinct genus, blennius, 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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