iB& C O A L F I S H. Class IV, 



vered with a loofe membrane : on the gill-covers, 

 and the javvs are on each fide, nine pundlures. 



The firft dorfal fin has twelve rays ; the fecond 

 nineteen -5 the third feventeen. 



The peroral fins thirteen •, the ventral fins fix: 

 the firft anal fin twenty-feven ; the fecond feven- 

 teen. 



The color on the back is a light brown-, on 

 the belly a dirty white. 



We owe the difcovery of this kind in our feas to 

 the Rev. Mr. Jago. 



* Three dorfal fins : chin beardlefs. 



7S. Coal. Coliirch. Belofi, 128. 



Colfifch Anglorum. Gefner pifc, 



89. 

 Afellus niger, Kolfifch. Koler. 



Schone^jelde, 19. 

 Cole fifli Sepfentrionalium 



anglorum, Rawlin Pollack 



Corftubienfium, Wil. pifc» 



l6g. Raiijyn.pifc.^^. 

 Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 



imberbi, maxilla inferiore 



longiore et linea lateral! 



reda. Arted. fynon- 34. 

 Gadus carbonarius. Lin, fyfi, 



438. Groncn>, Zooph. No» 



317* 



THE coal fifii takes its name from the black 

 color that it fometimes afiiimes. Belon calls 

 it the Colfifch^ imagining it was fo named by the 

 E'ngUfrj^ from its producing the Icthyocolla^ but 

 Gejner gives the true etymology, 



Thefe 



