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COD, POLLOCK, HADDOCK AND HAKE. 351 
names. The following names are in use in different parts of England : 
Baddoch, Billet, Billard, Black-Pollock, Black-Jack, Black-Coalsey, 
Blockan, Blockin, Coal, Coal-fish, Coalsay, Coalsey, Coal-whiting, 
Colemie, Colmey, Cooth, Cudden, Cuddy, Dargie, Gilpin, Glassock, 
Glashan, Glossan, Glossin, Green-cod, Green Pollock, Grey-lord, Gull- 
fish, Harbin, Kuth, Lob, Lob-keling, Maulrush, Parr, Pitock, Podley, 
Poddlie, Podling, Pollack, Prinkle, Rauning Pollack, Rawlin Pollack, 
Rock Salmon, Raw Pollock, Saithe, Sethe, Sey, Sey Pollack, Sillock, 
Skrae-fish, Stenlock, Tibre. 
THE POLLOCK OR COAL FISH. 
Its geographical distribution is quite different from that of either the 
Cod or Haddock, its northern range, at least in the Eastern Atlantic, 
being fully as wide as that of the Cod, the species having been found in 
the northern part of Spitzbergen, beyond the parallel of 80°, and on the 
arctic coast of Europe. It rarely enters the Baltic. Bloch records a 
specimen from Lubeck, and it is said to occur on the coast of Pomerania. 
Concerning the limits of its southern range authorities differ. Giinther 
places this at latitude 46° in the Bay of Biscay, while others claim that it 
enters the Mediterranean. Canestrini states that it has been observed at 
Taranto. It does not appear, however, that the species is abundant south 
of the English channel. It occurs about Iceland and on the west coast of 
Davis Straits, where specimens were obtained by Sir Edward Parry on his 
first voyage. North of Newfoundland it does not seem to be very abund- 
ant, while to the south the limit appears to be in the vicinity of Nantucket 
Shoals, where specimens are occasionally taken by the cod smacks. 
In Perley’s ‘‘ Catalogue of the Fishes of Nova Scotia,’’ he states that he 
had never seen the fish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, nor heard of it ex- 
cept near the Straits of Canso, although it was found very abundant in the 
