154 THE COMMERCIAL SEA FISHES OF 



Scotland, and blue-backs, Yorkshire ; rauning (ravenous) 

 pollack, Cornwall ; also locally as baddock, bil, billet, billard, 

 black pollack, black-jack, bleck, coalsay, coalsey, coal-whiting, 

 colemie, colmey, cooth, cudden, cuddy, dargie, gilpin, glassock, 

 glashan, glossan, glossin, green-cod, green-pollack, gray-lord, 

 gull-fish, harbine, kuth, lob, lob-keeling, moulrush, piltock, 

 podlie, podling, prinkle, rock-salmon, saithe, sethe, sey-pollack, 

 sillock, skrae-fish, stenloch, tibrie. The fry are called parrs 

 at Scarborough as well as in Northumberland, and soil, 

 poodler, billets or billiards up to one year of age ; cuddies, 

 saithes, coalman, also saidhean, or suyeen (Moray Firth) ; 

 and gerrocks at Banff; herring-hake at Aberdeen. 



In Ireland its names are legion. In county Down it 

 possesses four : the fry are gilpins, next size blockan, then 

 gray-lord, while the adults are termed glashan. The young 

 in some localities are also called cudden or pickey. In some 

 parts of the south and west these fish are termed black- 

 pollack or glassin. At Roundstone the young are called 

 glossan and moubrush, while adults are termed coal-fish ; at 

 Portrush the fry are about early in the spring, and by the 

 time they are from 4 to 7 inches in length they are 

 known as cadan (pronounced cudden} ; next spring they 

 are termed ceithnach (pronounced catenacti), perhaps an 

 expansion of the last name, since the termination ack 

 signifies " like." In the following autumn, when weighing 

 about 2 Ibs., they are known as glasan (pronounced glashin), 

 in allusion to their green colour, and a year later two-year- 

 old glasan. Subsequently they are entitled to the full term 

 gray -lord, as when they are from 8 Ibs. to 25 Ibs. weight. 



B. vii., D. 12-14 I 19-22 | 20-22, V. 6, A. 24-27 | 20-23, 

 Vert. 34. 



Length of head 4| to 4f ; height of body 4^ to 4f in the 

 total length. Eye.-^- Diameters 3^ in the length of the 



