Class IV. WHITING COD FISH. 



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The under iaw is longer than the upper; the Descrip- 



J ° ; rr TION. 



head and body rise pretty high, as far as the 

 first dorsal fin ; the side line is incurvated, rising 

 towards the middle of the back, then sinking 

 and running strait to the tail, which is broad, and 

 of a brown color ; the first dorsal fin has eleven 

 rays, the middle nineteen, the last sixteen; the 

 tail is a little forked. The color of the back is 

 dusky, of some inclining to green ; the sides be- 

 neath the lateral line marked with lines of yel- 

 low; the belly white; sometimes of a bright 

 red on the back and fins, and the sides of a 

 bright yellow, spotted with green. * 



species. 



Secunda asellorum 

 Rondel. 276. 



Merlanus. Rondel. Gesner 

 pise. 85. 



Asellus candidus primus, 

 Witling. Schonevelde 17- 



Asellus mollis major, seu al- 

 bus. Wil. Ichth. 170. 



Whiting. Rail syn. pise. 55. 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore 

 imberbi, corpore albo, max- 

 illa superiore longiore. Ar- 

 ted. synon. 34. 



Gadus merlangus. Lin. syst. 



438. Gm. Lin. 1167. 

 Gronov. Zooph. No. 3l6. 

 Hwitling, Widding. Faun. 



Suec. No. 310. 

 Le Merlan. Duhamel Tr. det 



Pesches. ii. 128. tab. 22. 

 Le Merlan. Block ichth. ii. 



143. tab. 65. 

 Le Gade Merlan. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons. ii. 



424. 



VV HITINGS appear in vast shoals in our 

 seas in the spring, keeping at the distance of 



10. Whi- 

 ting. 



* Ascan. icon. xxii. 



