250 COAL COD FISH. Class IV. 



is a small beard ; the eyes are covered with a 

 loose membrane; on the gill-covers, and the 

 jaws, are on each side nine punctures. The 

 first dorsal fin has twelve rays ; the second 

 nineteen ; the third seventeen ; the pectoral fins 

 thirteen ; the ventral fins six ; the first anal fin 

 twenty-seven ; the second seventeen. The color 

 on the back is a light brown ; on the belly a dirty 

 white. 



We owe the discovery of this kind in our seas 

 to the Rev. Mr. Jago. 



** Three dorsal fins : chin beardless. 



7. Coal. Colfisch. Belon 128. Gadus carbonarius. Lin. syst. 



Colfisch Anglorum. Gesner 438. Gm.Li71.ll68. 



pise. 89. Gronov. Zooph. No. 317- 



Asellus niger. Kolfisch. Koler. Le Colin. Duhamel Tr. des 



Schonevelde 1Q. Pesches. ii. 125. tab. 21. 



Cole fish Septentrionalium an- Jig. 1. 



glorum. Rawlin Pollack Le Colin. Block ichth. ii. 146. 



Cornubiensium. Wil. pise. tab. 66. 



168. Rail syn. pise. 54. Le Gade Colin. De la Ce- 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore pede Hist, des Poissons. ii. 



imberbi, maxilla inferiore 417« 



longiore et linea laterali 



recta. Arted. synon. 34. 



J- HE coal fish takes its name from the black 



color that it sometimes assumes, Belon calls it 



