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GREEN GADUS.. 



^ Gadus Virens. G. a/bus, dorso virescente, cauda bifurca. 

 White Gadus, with greenish back, and forked tail. 

 Gadus virens. Gadus dorso virescente, cauda bifurca. Lin. 

 Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. Il66. Faun. Suec. 309. 



THIS species is said to bear a very near general 

 resemblance to the Pollack, but to differ in being 

 of a greenish or olive-colour on the upper parts, 

 and to have the lateral line perfectly strait, instead 

 of curved as in that fish : the jaws are also equal, 

 and the tail distinctly forked ; whereas in the 

 Pollack the lower jaw is longer than the upper, and 

 the tail but very slightly inclining to a forked ap- 

 pearance. Notwithstanding these differences it is 

 held in doubt by some authors whether the present 

 fish be really a distinct species from the preceding. 

 It is said to be found plentifully in the Northern seas. 



With two dorsal fins. 

 HAKE. 



Gadus Merluccius. G. albidus, dorso snbcinereo, maxilla infenore 



longiorc. 

 Whitish Gadus, with subcinereous back, and lower jaw longer 



than the upper. 

 Gadus Merluccius. G. dipterygius imberbis, maxilla inferiore 



longiore. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 439. Block, t. 154. 

 Hake. Penn. Brit. Zoo/. 3. 



THE Hake is a species of a considerably length- 

 ened form : the head is rather large, broad and flat 



