Class IV. 



H A D O C K. 



f79 



belly is white, but they vary much, not only in 

 color* but in fhape, particularly that of the head. 



The iide line is white and broad, flrait, till it Side Line* 

 reaches oppofite the vent, when it bends towards 

 the tail. 



Aigrefinj ou aiglefin. Be/on. 



ii8. 

 Tertia afellorum fpecles. Ron- 



del. 277. 

 Tertia afel. Sp. Eglelinus. 



Gefner pi/c. 86. 

 Onos iive alinus veterum. 



Turner epiji. ad. Gefner. 

 Afellus minor, Schelfifch. 



Schone^velde. 18. 

 Hadock. WiL Icth, 170. 



Rail fyn. pi/c. 55. 

 Gad us dorfo tripterygio, ore 

 ciirato, max. fup. longiore^ 

 corpore albicante, cauda 

 parum bifurca. Arted.fynon^ 



36. 



Gadus vEglefinus. G. tripte= 



rygius cirratus albicans, 



Cauda biloba. Lin.fyJ}. 435, 



Kolja. Faun. Suec, No. 306, 



Grononj. Zooph. No. 321, 



74. Hadocs, 



OUR countryman "burner conjeftured this fpe- 

 cies to have been the Oy®-, or Afinus., of the 

 antients, and Belon that it was the Ko^o^^ and the 

 %oCaT05 oiOppian, We have carefully confulted 

 mod of the antient naturalifl?, but cannot difcover 

 any marks by which we can determine the fpecies 

 they intended. The words f Ov(^^ J Afinus^ 



* Codlings are often taken of a yellov/, orange, and even 

 red color, while they remain among the rocks, but on changing 

 their place alTume the color of other cod fiih. 



t Jriji, Hiji. an. LibNlll. c. 15. Oppian Halieuf, I. 151, 

 III. 191. 



X Ovidii HalieuL Lin, 131. Plinii Lib. IX, c, 16, 17. 



N 2 Jfellus^ 



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