Cilafs IV. aS Sigs 44g 
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Vv. The Be Dong 
Afellus nanus, Dwergdorfch, Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
Krumftert ?  Schonevelde, cirrato, officulo pinnarum 
20. ventralium primo in longam 
Bib & Blinds Cornubienfibus.  fetam producto. Arted. fynone 
Wil. Icth. 169. 
35° 
Afellus lufcus. Rai fyx pife. 54. Gadus lufcus. Liz. /jf. 4376 
HIS fpecies is fuppofed by Artedius to be the 
fame with the former; but fince it does not 
- appear that he had an opportunity of examining it, 
we fhall depend on the judgment of Mr. Ray, who 
had feen both, and fhall form a feparate article of it 
from his defcription, as it has not yet fell in our 
way. 
It grows to the length of one foot: the body is 
deep, and the fides comprefied: the fcales larger 
than thofe of the cod fifh, and adhere to the fkin: 
the eyes are covered with a loofe membrane, which 
it is faid the fifh can at pleafure blow up like a blad- 
der. The mouth fmall; the teeth difpofed like 
ethers of the kind: on the chin is a beard, which 
in grown fifh is an inch long. 
On the back are three fins; the firft has twelve 
rays; the middle fin, which is the longeit, has twen- 
ty-three; the laft twenty. 
The pectoral fins have about fixteen rays; the 
ventral fins feven or eight, the firft of which is very 
long and flender. 
The 
