250 COAL COD FISH. Class IV. 



is a small beard ; the eyes are covered with a 

 loose membrane; on the gill-covers, and the 

 jaws, are on each side nine punctures. The 

 first dorsal fin has twelve rays ; the second 

 nineteen ; the third seventeen ; the pectoral fins 

 thirteen ; the ventral fins six ; the first anal fin 

 twenty-seven ; the second seventeen. The color 

 on the back is a light brown ; on the belly a dirty 

 white. 



We owe the discovery of this kind in our seas 

 to the Rev. Mr. Jago. 



# * Three dorsal fins : chin beardless. 



7. Coal. Colfisch. Belon 128. Gadus carbonarius. Lin. syst. 



Colfisch Anglorum. Gesner 438. Gm. Lin. 1168. 



pise. 89. Gronov. Zooph. No. 317. 



Asellus niger. Kolfisch. Koler. Le Colio. Duhamel Tr. des 



Schonevelde 1Q'. Pesches. ii. 125. tab. 21. 



Cole fish Seplentrionalium an- Jig. 1. 



glorum. Rawlin Pollack Le Colin. Block ichth. ii. 146. 



Cornuliensium. Wil. pise. tab. 66. 



l6s. Ilaii syn. pise. 54. Le Gade Colin. De la Ce- 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore pede Hist, des Poissons. ii. 



imberbi, maxilla inferiore 417- 



longiore et linea laterali 



recta. Arted. syno?i. 34. 



X HE coal fish takes its name from the black 



color that it sometimes assumes. Belon calls it 



