Colores 
150 Pio O R. Clafs IV. 
The vent is placed at the diftance of only one- 
third the length of the whole fifth from the tip of 
the nofe ; behind the vent are two fins. 
The tail is almoft even at the end. 
The color of the back is light olive, or dirty 
yellow ; the belly filvery. 
It is efteemed a good eating fifh, not unlike the, 
whiting in tafte. 
Vi. The PO”: OTs 
Le Merlan? Belon. 120. Poor or Power Cornub. Mr. 5 
Anthiz fecunda fpecies. Ron- _ go. Raii fyn. pifc. 163: fig. 6 
del. 191. Gefner pifc. 56. Gadus dorfo tripterygio, ore 
Afellus mollis minor, feu afellus cirrato, corpore fefcunciali, 
omnium minimus. Motto ano in medio corporis. 4r- 
Venetiis. Caveran Mafilia. ted. fynon. 36 
Wil, Icth. 17. Gadus minutus. Lin. fff. 438. 
HIS is the only fpecies of cod fith with three 
dorfal fins that we (at this time*) are affured 
is found in the Mediterranean fea. It is taken near 
Marfeilles, and fometimes in fuch quantities as to 
become a perfect nufance; for no other kinds of 
fifh are taken during that time**. It is efteemed a 
good fifth, but is incapable of being falted or dried : 
* Mr. Ray, who vifited the Zalian and Sicilian feas, and was 
a moft diligent obferver, fays he could difcover no other kind ; 
but it is with pleafure we acquaint the reader, that our herhed 
correfpondent Do&tor Goxan, of Montpellier, will foon favor us 
with ample information on that head, it being the defign of 
that able Naturalift foon to publith his lctbyology, which will 
doubtlefsly point out the fith of his own feas. 
*® Rondel. 191. 
Belon 
