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Mehinogrummus aenkfinus Gill. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 2S0, 1S62; Goode 

 & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 8. 1879; Jordan & Gilbekt, Bull. 16, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 803, 1883; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Icbth. 354. 1896; 

 Bean Bull Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 372, 1897; Jordan & Evermann, 

 Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2542, 1898; IV, pi. GGCLXI, fig. 892, 892a, 

 1900. 

 The length of the body is four and one half times its depth 

 and three and three fourths times the length of the head. Snout 

 long and narrow, overlapping the small mouth; maxillary barely 

 reaching front of orbit; teeth subequal, large, in a cardiform 

 band in upper jaw; in a single series on lower jaw^ and on 

 vomer; occiput carinated; a ridge extending backward from each 

 orbit; eye very large, two thirds length of snout, four in head. 

 Anterior rays of first dorsal elevated, three fourths length of 

 head, the tin pointed, higher ihan second and third dorsals; 

 caudal luuate; vent below front of second dorsal. The skull in 

 this spt^-cies much more depressed than in G a d u s c a i 1 a r i a s, 

 broader, and thinner in texture; occipital crest exceedingly high, 

 much higher than in Gad us, the winglike projections at its 

 base anteriorly spreading widely, raised above the surface of the 

 skull. 1). 15-24-21; A. 23-21. 



Dark gray above, whitish below; lateral line black; a large 

 (lark blotch above the pectorals; dorsals and caudal dusky. 



Mitcliill described the haddock under the name Gadus 

 a e g 1 (' f i n u s . De Kay also describes the fish and gives a 

 figure of it in his Ncio Tark Fauna. He states that it is nearly as 

 fommon in tin- New York markets as the cod, and during the 

 sumiiKT it is even more abundant than the cod. 



The haddock inhabits the north Atlantic on both coasts, rang- 

 ing .sonili l(. I'^-ance and to North Carolina. Off Cape Hatterjis 

 it occurs ill the deeper water. It is an important food fish, 

 iind reaches a moderately large size, attaining to a length of 

 nearly 3 feet. 



At \\(>ods HfIe Mass. it was reported by Prof. Baird in 1871. 

 Ii- Smith, however, says it is not found in Vineyard sound or 

 I'Miz/artis l)ay, but is common G or 7 miles off Gay head, and the 

 ocean side of M;irthas Vineyaid. In Massachusetts bay it is 

 a common resident sjx'cies. 



