186 



GADID.E. 



SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



GADIDjE. 







tJjJJI 



THE THREE-BEARDED ROCKLING. 



SEA LOCHE. WHISTLE-FISH. 



Motella vulgaris, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 334. 

 ,, tricirrata, Nilsson, p. 48. 

 ,, ,, Three-Bearded Rockling, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 449, 



sp. 135. 

 ,, ,, WlLLUGHBY, p. 121, H. 4, fig. 4. 



Rockling, Ray, Syn. p. 164, sp. 9, fig. 9. 

 Bloch, pt. V. pi. 165. 



Three-Bearded Cod, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 267, 

 pi. 36. 

 ,, ,, Rockling, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 2. 



,, tricirratus, Three-Bearded Gade, Flem, Brit. An. p. 193, sp. 86. 



Generic Characters. — Body elongated, cylindrical, compressed posteriorly ; 

 Ihe first dorsal fin very slightly elevated, delicate in structure, scarcely percep- 

 tible; second dorsal and anal fins long, continued nearly to the base of the tail. 



Mustela marina, 



Gadus tricirratus, 



,, mustela. 



The Three-Bearded Rockling, included by the 

 Rev. Mr. Jago in his Catalogue of the rarer Fishes of Corn- 

 wall, and published by Ray, with a figure, at the end of 

 his Synopsis, though not uncommon on the Devonshire and 

 Cornish coasts, as noticed by Colonel Montagu and Mr. 

 Couch, is more rare on our shores generally than the Five- 



