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142 COMMON COD FISH.  Clafs IV. 
The jaws are of an equal length, at the end of 
the lower is a {mall beard ; the teeth are difpofed 
in the palate as well as jaws. 
The eyes are large. 
On the back are “three foft fins; the firft has four- 
teen, the two laft nineteen rays a-piece. The ven- 
tra] fins are very flender, and confift but of fix rays ; 
the two firft extending far beyond the others. It 
has two anal fins; the firft confifting of iat the 
Jaft of fixteen rays. 
The tail is almoft even at the aaah the firft ray 
on each fide is fhort, and compofed of a ftrong bone. 
The color of this fifh is cinereous on the back and 
fides, and commonly {potted with yellow: the belly 
is white, but they vary much, not only in color* 
but in fhape, particularly that of the head. 
The fide line is white and broad, ftrait, till it 
reaches oppofite the vent, when it bends towards the 
tail. 
* Codlings are often taken of a yellow, orange, and even red 
color, while they remain among the rocks, but on changing 
their place aflume the color of other cod fifh. 
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