GADUS. 
‘the firft ray of the pofterior one oe rigid, and very long: 
Tail rounded with the rays for 
Lora. Bearded; jaws e ne 
mento unico, Art. Botlatrie,Trifeus, Salvian. 
et Donov. Brit. Fifhes. 
Silurus cirro in 
two, or ev fee s an article of food the flefh 
is efteemed delicious. ‘The of the burbot rge, 
nd rather broad; the eyes fmall, with blueifh pupil, and 
arge 3 jaws with feven rows of fhar 
et. 
tongue, and alfo 
flraight ; dorfal ond a fins long and narrow ; and the vent 
in the middle of the belly. 
Five be. ds; firft dorfal fin obfolete. Gmel. 
Donov. Brit t. Fithes. 
e ere length of this {pecies is mentioned as nine- 
teen inches, and it rarely attains to near that a It feeds 
all t a animais, and though 
i of a European fhores. 
and whitifh beneath, with the fins a brown, except the 
pectoral, which are tinged with yellowifh, and the ventral, 
which are white at the bafe, and towards the tip rofy. The 
firit dorfal fin-confifts of one {mall diftin@ ray, and many 
very obfolete ; the fecond of forty-nine rays ; = pectoral 
of four sey ; Piece fix ; and tail of twenty-fou 
Tricirratus. ‘Three beards ; 
body {po 
Mufisla vulgaris, Rondel. 
Cornubi ie, Will. 
Penn. 
Bloch and Gmelin have followed Willughby in see 
this a mere. variety of a adus muitela, or five-bearde 
cod; an idea certamly founded in error, the two fifhes exhi- 
biting eee ers fo entir eG diftin & that it is impofhible they 
can be of the fame fpecies. This fubjectis difcuffed, and 
the point as it is prefumed determined, in a fatisfaCtory man- 
-firft dorfal fn obfolete ; 
a 
e 
ckling, never exceed 
thofe on the true muftela ever lefs than five. is alone 
would be in our opinion fufficiently demonftrative of a fpeci- 
fic difference, but they are furthermore diftinguifhed by other 
peculiarities no lefs decifive. There is, for inftance, a diffi- 
milarity in the form, and al’o in colour, the five- earded 
nt co 
ary a general hue of or ae ae in i ates, and this 
ina remarkable degree on the abdomen, the head, and ven- 
tral fins. The body of the latter is alfo {potted in an ele. 
gant and confpicuous manner with fufcous, no trace of which 
1S perceptible i in G. mmuftela. For thefe and other reafons the 
author of the above mentioned work defcribed the two kinds 
oy : 
; Gadus sides cirris oie pinna dorfali priore 
exfoleta, corpore ulato. 
The three- ed cod, or rockling, appears from our 
own refearches to be moft common on the rocky fhores of the 
weitern counties cf Britain. Its length is from twelve to 
The firlt ray i the cae el - fal fin is 
ich are minute and nume- 
dorfal fin ae of fifty-four faa 
‘oral fin a ; al Jins fiefhy, with the ane — 
Leta, Rondel. 
‘appears in the lait edition of the Britifh Zoology. Ts 
fi 
. oe anal fn with torty-fix rays, and the tail twentye 
Dr. Walibaum oem another fifh (a native of Ruffi:) 
as a variety of muftela under the name of rufficus y cirro unt:o6 
Gmelin alfo feems to doube whether the ipecies Mediterra- . 
neus defcribed by Linnzus from the Muf. Ad. Fr. and.re- 
ferred by that writer to the feétion ey only one dorfal fin, 
" may not be another variety of the 
Cimerivs. Cirri four; firft dorfsl fin obfoleta; the firft . 
ray fee taped Gmel. Le Cimbre, Bole. Cimbrian 
a 
bed asa native of the agra and Atlantic feas, 
ania as bearing a clofe affinity w ie {pecies siete rom: 
ft r 
ith th 
which te is faid to differ chiefly in having the of the 
anterior dorfal fin divided at the tip in the form of ae letter 
2 or rather in two filaments difpofed horizontally. There. 
s a fingle beard on-the upper, and another on the lower lip,, 
are two over the noftrils. 
* * ® Dorfal jin only one. 
MEDITERRANEUS. 
with one. Linn. 
Native of the Mediterranean. Liacépede refers it to the 
saa faery as there are iar two rays in the ventral fins. 
Lower jaw longett ; tail round, and with the 
dora and anal fin edged Ww i white F se fins flefhy w ith 
five onev. Brit. Brofme ; mout 
ee ‘tail o val and one. Ginel. Brofme, Strom. 
Torfk, Pen 
So ae obfeurity has hitherto prevailed over the hitory 
Upper jaw with two cirri; lower 
at fome len eae 
o 
Se 
fi m that Laowa in Sc stlond cae the fame nan ne 3 2 
Peet ante that has given rife to-:much mifur derflanding 
among Englifh writers refpeCting thofe two fithes 
torfk, or dorfk of the north of Europe, with the en 
of Scotland only, is the gadus callarias of Linnzus, a fifl 
ar Sana ina a manner lay the Scotch to rik, 
ing three e find in our common 
coi and ha dock, w hile ie ier: is es ae only 
dorfal fin: are ae materi ‘ally d iftin ther 
eee but thele: are the d unerr ie ne 
ters that prevail in thofe two fccae 
«The fame name 7s common to both thofe fithes in 
different countries; it was long fuppofed, and admitted 
without farther iveigation, oe oe muft ‘be of the fame 
ennant was error ene that 
: he had learnt that ee exifted a fith called 
» in the Orkneys, and northern parts of Scotlan 
and not having feen it, concluded it to be of the fame ind 
as Linnzus defcribes Wie that name in his Fauna Suecica. 
s milftake was corrected on the 
Mr. Pennant the defcrip- 
ich the plate was engraven, that 
rom his own immediate ¢ obfervations to ceter- 
Swedes is not the t ; 
cotch, which renders his account not a little Tntereting. 
The torfk it feems, from his account, or as.it is-called in th 
Shetlands uf. ooh brifmak (perhaps a from brofme, 
its Norwegian name) is a northern fifh, which by has not 
been difcovered ie ‘er to the fouthward than 
oa is even ar — fc carce, 
t fwa d ferms either dried or = ed and packed in 
barrele a a conden ste of commerc 
2 
« Stromy 
