72 VIVIPAROUS BLENNY. Clafs Tv, 
The vent is in the middle of the body; the anal 
fin extends from it almoft to the tail. 
The tail is rounded, and of a yellow color. 
The back and fides are of a deep olive : the es 
whitifh. 
Vi, The VIVIPAROUS :BLENWNA. 
Muftela marina vivipara, Ael- _—na ani flava. Arted. hr On. AS 
quappe, Ael-pute, Ael-mo- Blennius viviparus, B. ore ten< 
der. Schonevelde. 50. tab. 4. taculis duobus. Lin. /jft. 
Guffer, Eelpout. Szb. Scot. tii. = 4.43. 
25: Tanglake. Faun. /uec. No. 317. 
Muftela vivipara Schoneveldii. Mu/. Ad. Fr 1, 69. tab. 32. 
Wil. Icth. 122. Raiifyn. pif. Enchelyopus corpore lituris va- 
69. riegato; pinna dorfi ad cau- 
Blennius capite dorfoque fufco dam finuata. Gronov. Looph, 
flavefcente lituris nigris, pin- No. 265. 
CHONEVELDE firft difcovered this fpecies ; 
Sir Robert Sibbald afterwards found it on the 
Scotch coafts ; and Limneus has defcribed it in his 
account of his Swedi/h majefty’s Mu/eum. 
We are unacquainted with this fifth; but on the 
authority of Sir Rodert Sibbald, give it a place in 
this work, borrowing our defcription from Schone- 
velde and Linneus. 
They are viviparous, bringing forth two or three 
hundred young ata time. Their feafon of parturi- 
tion is a little after the depth of winter. Before Mzd- 
fummer they quit the bays and fhores, and retire into 
the deep, where they are commonly taken. They 
are a very coarfe fifh, and eat only by the poor, - 
They 
