1^4 B I B, Class IV. 



The color of the body is white, but more ob- 

 fcure on the back than the belly, ^nd tinged with 

 yellow. 



It is called at Smrhorough a, Kleg. It is a very 

 delicate fifh. 



76. Bib. Afellus nanus, Dwergdorfch, 

 Krumllert ? SchDne^elde^ 20. 



Bib Sz Blinds Cornubienfibus, 

 WiL Icth. 169. 



Afellus luicus. Raiijyn, pi/c. 

 54- 



Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 

 cirrato, officulo pinnarum 

 ventralium primo in longam 

 fetam produ6lo. Arted.Jynon. 



35- 

 Gadus lufcus. Lin.fyfi. 437. 



THIS fpecies grows to the length of one foot. 

 The greateft depth three inches and a half. 

 The fcales are large, and fo far from adhering to 

 the fkin, as is afierted by naturalifls, are extreme- 

 ly deciduous. 



The body is deep, the fides comprefTed. The 

 eyes covered with a loofe m.embrane, which it can 

 blow up at pleafure, like a bladder. The mouth 

 is fmall : beneath the chin a beard, an inch long. 

 In the firfl: dorfal fin twelve rays : in the fecond, 

 which is longed, twenty-three : in the third, twenty. 

 The peroral fins about fixteen : the ventral fix 

 or feven, of which the firft ray is long, and feta- 



ccous : 



