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At the present day the Whiting Pout is met with on .all the 

 coasts of Great Britain, it is found as far north as Greenland, and 

 occasionally enters the Mediterranean. 



Gadus minutus, linnm vs. 



{Power Cod.) 

 Plate X., Figs. 9, 10, 11. 



Otolitl) of this species were, like the last, recognised in the 

 Coralline Crag by Mr. Higgins and Prof. Prestwich (loc, cit.). 

 Recent specimens of G. minutus have the otoliths proportionally 

 broader and less strongly nodular than those of G. luscus of the 

 same size. In large examples of G. hiscus the nodules are partially 

 obliterated, but this is not the case in smaller ones. It is by no 

 means easy to separate the otoliths of the two species, but there 

 are a few from the Coralline Crag of Sutton in the Museum of 

 Practical Geology which seem to agree best with those of 

 G. minutus, and they are provisionally placed in this species. 



Gadus minutus is now living on the Atlantic coasts of Europe, 

 and is very common in the Mediterranean. 



Gadus merlangus, linn^us. 

 ( Whiting.) 

 Plate X., Figs. 12a!, b. 



The otoliths of this species have also been doubtfully recorded 

 from the Coralline Crag by Mr. Higgins and Prof, Prestwich 

 (loc. cit.), but I have been unable to obtain any corroborative 

 evidence. 



The late Mr. Robert Bell sent me a small Gadoid otolith from 

 the St. Erth Pliocene deposit, which I believe belongs to this 

 species. The specimen is about 9 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, the 

 extreme, pointed, hinder end being broken off just at tiie place where 

 the otoliths of recent Whiting so often break, there being very 

 frequently little notches on the edge at this place, and traces of 

 snch notches are seen in this fossil. If this is not G, merlangus 

 it must have been a closely allied form. 



The Whiting is now living on the Western coasts of Europe, and 

 in the Mediterranean. 



