02 FIVE BEARDED COD. Class IV. 



line with large black fpots : the back fin and tail 

 are darker ; the vent fin of a brighter red, but all 

 are fpotted. The lateral line bends in the middle, 

 then paiTes ftrait to the tail. 



88. Five Gadus dorfo dipteryglo, Ail- gius cirris 5, pinna <lorfaIi 



Bearded. co magno ad pinnam dorfi priore exoleta. Lin. fyft. 



primam, ore cirrato? ^r/f</. 440. Grono-v. Zooph, No. 



/yno7z. 37. ^ 314. 



Gadus muilela. G. diptery- 



MR. Willughhy makes this fpecies with five 

 beards, a variety only of the former \ but 

 having opportunity of examining feveral fpeci- 

 mens, we muft difient from his opinion, having 

 always obferved the number of the beards in the 

 fpotted kind not to exceed three, nor the number 

 in the brown kind to be lefs than five. The 

 firft ray of the dorfal fin is very long. There is 

 alio fome difference in the form as well as color, this 

 fpecies being rather thicker in proportion than the 

 former. 



Excepting thefe particulars, and the number of 

 beards, there is a general agreement in the parts of 

 both. The beards on the upper jaw are four, viz. 

 two at the very end of the nofe, and two a little 

 above them : on the end of the lower jaw is a fingle 

 one. 



Thefe fifti are of a deep olive brown, their belly 



whitifh. 



