Name, 
144 Fiz fo’ Dr Oy GiekK. Clafs IV, 
The belly is a little prominent; the fide line 
white, broad, placed nearer the back than the belly, 
and a little incurvated. . 
The dorfal fins are dufky, the two firft fpotted: 
the back, head, and fides of a deep olive color, 
in fome whitifh, and marked with numerous yellow 
fpots: the belly white. 
’ The tail even at the end, and its rays foft. 
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IL, The, ,:H...A& ,D .0 same 
Aigrefin, ouaiglefin Belon.t 18. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
‘Tertia 2 fpecies. Ron- cirrato, max. fup. longiore, 
del. 27 corpore albicante, cauda pa- 
Wertia act Sp. Eglefinus. Ge/- rum bifurca. Arted. /ynom 
ner pife. 86. 36. 
Ohos five afinus veterum. Tur- Gadus glefinus. G. tripte-— 
ner epif?. ad Gefner. rygius cirratus albicans, cau- 
Afellus minor, Schelfifch. Seho- — dabiloba. Lin. jf. 435s- 
' nevelde. 18. Kolja. Faun. Juec. No. 306. 
Hadock. Wil. Icth..170. Raii Gronov.Zooph. No. 321. 
Ain. per 55+ 
UR countryman Turner conje€tured this fpe- 
cies to have been the OvG», or 4fnus, of the 
antients, and Belon, that it was the Kgies, and the 
Tec€aros of Oppian. We have carefully confulted 
moft of thé antient naturalifts, but cannot difcover 
any marks by which we can determine the fpecies 
they intended. ‘The words *OvG@-, **dfinus, Ajellus, 
+ Callarias, and Bacchus, are irae ane 
© Arif. Hi. an. lib. viii. c. 15. Oppian Halieut. I. 151. iil. 19k. 
** Ovidii Halieut. lin. 131. Pint libs IX. 6, 16. 17. i 2 
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