514 THE POOH AND THE COMMON WHITING. 



to be a new species, and has figured it as such ; but 

 Nilsson seems to consider it as a mere \ariety of tin- 

 Bib. Hitherto this fish does not appear to have been 

 met with on the coasts of Denmark. Nothing is known 

 of its habits. 



The Poor, or Power Cod (Glys-Torsk, Gly>*-K<>lj<i, Sw. ; 

 A "<///(", Norw.; Gadus minutus, Linn.), is pretty common 

 in the Bonus Skiirgfird and the Cattegat, as also on the 

 coast of Norway, as far up at least as Bergen ; but in the 

 Sound it is somewhat rare, and though Bloch tells us it 

 inhabits the Baltic, yet Swedish and Danish naturalists 

 are altogether disbelievers on that point. It is the 

 smallest of the genus Gadus, its usual length being from 

 six to eight inches, and seldom exceeding ten. Its chief 

 resorts are deep water, where the bottom is sandy, and 

 in. the near vicinity of precipitous, rocky ground. Re- 

 cording to the fishermen, it remains in much the saint- 

 locality all the year round. It lives on small prey, ehieily 

 crustaceans such as Jdolea, (laminarns, &c. and mol- 

 luscs. Little seems known of its bin-ding habits. 

 Swedish ichthyologists imagine that it holds its Lek in 

 the spring, but Danish authorities say June. Its flesh, 

 in Sweden at least, is not much esteemed, but in Norway 

 is said to be better liked. 



The Common "Whiting (ILrilUny, Sw. ; 11'ittliny, 

 Norw.; Hr'nllhiy, Dan.; Gadu-s Mi-rlimyus, Linn.) \\as 

 very common with us, and elsewhere on the \\estern 

 coast, as high up, according to K rover, as the near 

 vicinity of the North Cape itself. It is also an inhabitant 

 of the more southern portion of the Baltic. Though 

 properly speaking a sea-lish, it would not seem inimical to 

 fresh \\ater. 1 myself, at least, have known numbers to 

 betaken with the rod and line from one of the Gothenburg 

 bridges, \\here the water is altogether free from salt. 

 Its iiMial h-iiL'th is from ei_rht to fourteen inches, but it 



