BIB, POUT, AND WHITING POUT, 157 



SURBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. GADIDjE. 



THE BIB, POUT, AND WHITING POUT. 



SMELTiE, Zetland. — kleg, Scarborough. — blens and 

 BLINDS, Devonshire and Cornwall. 



Morrhna lusca, Bib, Flem. Brit. An. p. 191, sp. 78. 

 ,, barbata, Tout, Flem. ,, ,, ,, sp. 79. 



Asellus luscus, Bib <5f Blinds, Willughby, p. 169. 



,, barbatus. Whiting Pout, Willughby, App. 22, L. 4, 



Gadus luscus, Linn^us. 



,, barbatus, Linn^us. Block, pt. v. pi. 166. 



,, luscus Bib, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 247, pi. 34. 



,, barbatus. Pout, Penn. ,, ,, ,, p. 246. 



,, luscus. Bib, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 19. 



The systematic terms which refer to the Bib and Pout 

 are here brought together in the belief that they are but 

 different names for the same fish. 



Willughby, in his Ichthyology, page 169, first described 

 his Asellus luscus, under its Cornish names of Bib and Blinds. 

 Ray, in his Appendix to Willughby's work, which he edited, 

 admitted from Martin Lister, as a species, the Whiting 

 Pout of the London market, not aware that it was the same 



