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The under jaAV is longer than the upper; the Descrip- 



. . TION. 



head and body rise pretty high, as far as the 

 first dorsal fin ; the side line is incurvated, rising 

 towards the middle of the back, then sinking 

 and running strait to the tail, which is broad, and 

 of a brown color ; the first dorsal fin has eleven 

 rays, the middle nineteen, the last sixteen j the 

 tail is a little forked. The color of the back is 

 dusky, of some inclining to green; the sides be- 

 neath the lateral line marked with lines of yel- 

 low ; the belly white ; sometimes of a bright 

 red on the back and fins, and the sides of a 

 bright yellow, spotted with green. * 



Secunda asellorum species. Gadus merlangus. Lin. syst. 10. Whi- 



Rondel. 276. 438. Gm.Lin.liQ7. ting. 



Merlanus. Rondel. Gesner Gronov. Zooph. No. 3l6. 



pise. 85. Hwitling, Widding. Faun. 



Asellus candidus primus, Suec. No. 310. 



Witling. Schonevelde 17. Le Merlan. DuhamelTr.des 



Aseilus mollis major, seu al- Pesches. ii. 128. tab. 22. 



bus. Wil. Ichth. 170. Le Merlan. Block ichth. ii. 



Whiting. Rati syn. pise. 55. 143. tab. 65. 



Gadus dorso tripterygio, ore Le Gade Merlan. De la Ce- 



imberbi, corpore albo, max- pede Hist, des Poissons. ii. 



ilia superiore longiore. At- 424. 



ted. synon. 34. 



VV HITINGS appear in vast shoals in our 

 seas in the spring, keeping at the distance of 



* Ascan. icon. xxii. 



