ClafsIV. BROWN WHISTLE FISH. 165 
of the nofe: the body is long, flender, and com- 
preffed fideways, efpecially towards the tail: at the 
end of the upper jaw are two beards ; on the chin one. 
The teeth are numerous and fmall, difpofed along 
the jaws in form of a broad plate: in the roof of 
the mouth is a fet of {mall teeth, difpofed in a tri- 
angular form. 
The number of branchioftegous rays is feven. 
The firft dorfal fin is lodged in a deep furrow juft 
beyond the head, and confift of a number of fhort 
unconnected rays: the fecond rifes juft behind it, 
and reaches very near the tail: the pectoral fins 
are broad and round: the ventral fins fmall; the 
fecond ray the longeft: the anal fin reaches almoft 
to the tail: the tail rounded at the end. 
The fcales are very {mall: the color of the body 
and head a reddifh yellow, marked above the lateral 
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 
paffes ftrait to the tail. 
XVI. The BROWN WHISTLE FISH. 
Gadus dorfo dipterygio, fulco Gadus muftela.G. dipterygius 
magno ad pinnam dorfi pri- cirris 5, pinna dorfali priore 
mam, ore Cirrato? Arted. exoleta. Lin. fy/?. 440. Gree 
JSjnon. 376 nov. Looph. No. 314. 
R. Willoughby makes this fpecies with five 
beards, a variety’ only of the former; but 
having opportunity of examining feveral {pecimens, 
we muft diffent from his opinion, having always ob- 
ferved 
