GADUS. 
common contractile fiu ; tongue fhort, thick ; 
potterior Pe the back much arched; vent nearer the 
head. . 
Luscus.  Firft ray of the ventral fin feiaseond. Lina. 
Bib, Donov. Brit. Fi ifhes 
~The body of ee fith, like that of the whiting pout, is 
deep, and t comprefiled ; the colour along the back 
olive ; the fides besutifly glofied with a tinge of golden 
hue, and the lower part pure filvery-white The eye is 
protected by means of a loofe membrane, which the creature 
can blow up at pleafure like a bladder. All the fins, except 
the oS are dufky, the latter white. In the firft dorfal 
ut thirteen ape in the fecond twenty, and in ei 
third n eae in the oral fins fixteen ; ventral five 
fir anal ee a fhoond anal twenty, and tail arn 
three 
is {pecies i is a native of the European feas, —_ Aisi 
eeeceds the lengih of ten or twelve inches : it appea 
more abundant on the oe abi and full higher eee 
latitudes than i aaet ete 
ae middl of the body. 
Bae jae Species, Gein. 
Will. Poor. 
ative of the European and Mediterranean feas ; length 
fix or feven inches, and of a fomewhat elongated form; the 
body filvery, {potted with black; back brownith-yellow, 
and. gill-covers punctured; the lower jaw is fhorter, with 
ba rows of teeth ; the eyes round rok ate and pupil 
black ; the lateral line narrow and ftraight ; and the tai 
forked. The cigar ded perfedtly black within, being lined 
with a {kin of that c 
e appearance of this little = in the ahaa nean 
mo fifherme nounces an 
which the cod, the dorfe, and the haddock, are the 
soft confiderable.. iei is known at Marfeilles, where, at 
certain feafons, it occurs in amazing p 
capelan, or officier. The fpecies feeds on {mall fifhes and 
crabs, and lives, fs the moft a in deep waters of the fea: 
the flefh is white and well-ta: 
Saipa. Fourth ray of ae firft dorfal fin, and fifth x ray 
of the firft anal fins longer than the reft; fecond ray of 
_ the ventral fin ending in a long briftle. Lepechin. Saida 
adus. 
iy Deferibed as a new {pecies. in the Tranfaétions of the 
Royal Bee of Peterfburg, by Lepechin, who informs us 
that it inhabits. the White fea. The length is eight inches ; 
and a lit 
are large, i whith pupil snd blueifh 
iris ; gill-covers a. {petted with black, and compofed of 
three Taminz, the loweft of which is lunate, the next elliptical, 
the third triangular, and bicufpidat back of the 
fish i is convex, fhghtly ‘chanelle ed on a fore part, and of a 
a few confuent blackith fpots ; 
la teral line is ftraight, 
and nearer t ngular, brown, es 
whitifh rays ; anal oblong and pir Sage with the fore 
of the bafe dufky blue ; ventral whitith at the bafe, and vail 
forked, The fleth j is often eaten each ae and tough. 
Biennorpes. Ventral fins bifid. Pallas. Blenn 
, 
aid 
gadus. 
Native of the Mediterranean fea. The length of this 
rough on the 
Mull: 
Afellus 
plenty, by the name of cu 
fpecies is nine inches ; the body thick, foft, conv 
preffed, and covered with fm all f feales : filve ; sare a 
rey caer is the back. ‘T'he head is thick, hae and obs 
tufe ; lips fefhy, and doubled; teeth minute, u 
thofe in the upper jaw hardly vitible ; 
‘pro ae and acute at the edge; palate longitud} 
{triated ; eyes large, with filvery i iris 5 ; gillcovers fofts Ie 
teral line A d on the — fins yell ‘ 
{mall rays, the dorfal ee 
row, and triangular ; fec ower 3 third rat} 
and fhorter ; pectora ] i narrow, fub -falcate eer 
firft ray of the ventral fins long 4 
anal fia rounded, fecond triangular, and tail forked, 
** Dorfal fins three ; mouth without bears, 
Virens. Back greenith; tail forked, Linn. 
ch. 
Le g 
Jey, Bofc, _ Green polla e gade 
ow 
by no lefs than five different appellations, 
in its various itates of growth. The firft eal fin ufua ally 
y- 
uh ; upper jaw longeft. 
Brit. Fishes adus s merlangus ; ahs 7 lla lke. 
riore longiore, Linn. Fn. Suec. /ellus mollis, Jon. Whit. 
eA fpecies carro In the eb parts of Europe. 
It is found in the Baltic, Mediter nean, and Northern 
ri rors ‘els 5 frequenty than in the {eas that wafh the 
of Ho Han » France, and England, where, at moft 
iy 
2 
whiting commence upon the coaft of France as early as 
January or February, but on ee of Holland, and our 
wn country, not before April or May 
whiting beh on the fre, and the young of the 
Se he ipawning 
a eo ing of ee ae an the young fry 
make their apa nes fhortly after ; thefe increafe rapidly 
in fize till they become ten or ene inches in length ; after 
which the progrefs of their growth is obferved to be mic 
flower. There are confiderable whiting fifheries on’ the 
weftern coatt of Britain ; ; 
to our markets a off the 
Dogger bank, a weighing from four to five pounds or 
fome fay, even eig — 
he e general for a the whiting is fo well known, as to 
render its defcription fuperfluous. The dorfal fins are thrée 
which contains about fifteen rays, the 
meters ' In the 
in the fecond twent 
and in the tail thirty-three. Brit. Fithcs, mL a6 oe wenty, 
e atthe Lowe rad longett ; lateral line bent. 
me us huitingo-po aad Wil, Whiting pollact 
Ray. Donov. Brit. F a er mae 
Frequent on loveral a the rocky coafts of Britain, and 
rea ge urope. They migrate‘in large fhoals, and 
n f{maller fithes, efpecially the fand launce. The 
a pollack feldom exceeds the length of eighteen inehes, 
Its 
