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CUMBRIAN GADUS. 



Gadus Cimbrius. G. cirris quatuor, pinna dor sail prior e exoleta, 

 radio primo hastato. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1174. 



Gadus with four beards, first dorsal fin incomplete, with tfre 

 first ray hastated. 



GREATLY allied to the Mustela, but with the first 

 ray of the first dorsal fin larger than the rest, 

 subulate, and divided at the tip in form of the letter 

 T. A single barb both on the upper and lower lip, 

 and two over the nostrils : pectoral fins with sixteen 

 rays; ventral seven ; anal forty-two ; caudal twenty- 

 five. Native of the Atlantic and Northern seas. 



TOAD GADUS. 



Gadus Tau. G.fusco-flavescens, nigro maculatus^ labio infcriore 



cirris cincto, operculis triacanthis, pinna dorsali priore triradiata, 

 Yellowish-brown Gadus, spotted with black, with the lower 



lip fringed with beards, the gill-covers three-spined, and the 



first dorsal fin three-rayed. 

 Gadus Tau. G, dipterygius cirratus, operculis triacanthis, pinna 



dorsali priore triradiata. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 440. 

 Gadus cirris plurimis. Bloc/i. pi. 67. 



THIS fish is so unlike the rest of the Gadi that it 

 might almost be allowed to constitute a distinct 

 genus : it is in fact more allied to the following 

 genus, Blennius, under which however it cannot 

 with strict propriety be placed. 



The head and fore-parts are extremely broad and 

 depressed, while the remainder of the animal is 



