Class IV. THREE BEARDED COD. loi 



Muftella vulgaris. RondeL 121. Rail fyn. pifc. 6j. 87. Threi 



281. GeJ'ner pifc. 89. Rockling, Mr. Jago, Rati bearded. 



Sea Loclie Cefiria, Whiftle fyn. pifc. \b\. fig. 9. 

 £fh Cornubi^, Wil. Icth. 



THIS fpecies commonly frequents the rocky 

 fhores of thefc iflands, and is fometimes 

 taken with a bait. 



Ic grows to the length of nineteen inches ; the 

 weight two pounds two ounces : the head is large 

 and- flat: the eyes not remote from the end of 

 the nofe : the body is long, flender, and compref- 

 fed Tideways, efpecially towards the tail: at the (tnd 

 of the upper jaw are two beards ; on the chin one. 



The teeth are numerous and fmall, difpofed 

 along the jaws in form of a broad plate : in the 

 roof of the mouth is a fet of fmall teeth, difpofed 

 in a triangular form. 



The number of branchioilegous rays is feven. 



The firfl: dorfal fin is lodged in a deep furrow 

 juft beyond the head, and confifts of a number of 

 fnort unconnected rays : the fecond rifes juft be- 

 hind it, and reaches very near the tail : the pedo- 

 r^i fins are broad and round : the ventral fins fmall ; 

 the fecond ray the longed : the anal fin reaches al- 

 moil: to the tail : the tail rounded at the end. 



The fcales are very fmall: the color of the body 

 and head ^ reddifh yeliowj marked above the lateral 



line 



