$0 FlSIItS. JUGULARES. 10. Gadas. 



which are brown in the fummer and black in the winter: scales 

 fmall, foft : iris pale yellow, pupil black : body fometimes with a 

 reddish cast, and the fpots orange in the young fish : lower-jaw 

 with a single be ard : lateral-line nearer the back, broad, curved, 

 f pot ted : dorsal-fins 15, 16, 18-rayed ; pectoral 17; ventral 6; 

 anal 18, 17; caudal 26-rayed. 



17. G. Luscus. Back olive, sides yellowish: first ray of 

 the ventral fins long, setaceous : tail bordered with 

 black. 



Bib. Brit. Zool. iii. t. 30. Donovan Fish. t. 19. 



Body about a foot long, white beneath, prominent on the back 

 and belly ; fcales larger, deciduous : chin with a single beard : anal- 

 fin dusky edged with white: dorfal-fins 12, 20, 10-raycd; pectoral 

 16; venlral6; anal 13, 18; tail 17-rayed. 



18. G. punctafm. Pale brown with golden spots, be- 

 neath white thickly covered with minute dusky 

 specks : upper-jaw longer. 



Speckled Cod. Taken frequently in the Weirs at Swanfea. 



Body 18 inches long, slightly arched on the back, a little promi- 

 nent on the belly, covered above with numerous gold-yellow 

 roundish fpots, beneath with dusky fpecks which are stellate under 

 a glafs : head large, gradually sloping : teeth fmall, in feveral rows 

 in the upper-jaw, in the lower a single row: nostrils double : iris 

 reddish, pupil black: chin with a single beard : nape with a deep 

 longitudinal groove : lateral-line nearer the back, curved as far as 

 the middle of the fecond dorfal-fin, growing broader and whiter 

 towards the end : upper-fins and taz'/brown, with obfeure yellowish 

 fpots, and darker towards the ends ; lower-ones tinged with green : 

 vent near the middle of the body : scales fmall, all of them under a 

 glafs minutely fpeckled with brown : gill-covers of 2 pieces : Iowa - 

 jaw with 5 obfeure punctures each side : dorsal-fins 14, 20, 18-rayed; 

 pectoral 18 : ventral 6, the first ray shorter than the fecond and di- 

 vided a little way down ; anal 19, 16 ; tail even, 36-rayed. 



Differs from G. Morhua in not having the first anal ray fpinous, 

 and in the lower-jaw being considerably longer ; from G. Lufcus in 

 the first ray of the ventral-fin being shorter than the fecond ; from 

 G. barbatus in wanting the 7 distinct punctures on the lower-jaw, 

 in its fmall fcales, and in the first dorfal-fin not ending in a long 

 fibre ; and from G. Callarias in not being spotted with brown, and 

 in having the lateral-line white. 



19. G. barbaim. White, with brownish back and fins : 

 lower jaw with 7 punctures each side. 



Whiting-pout. Blocht. 166. Br. Zool. iii. p. 183. 



Body about a foot long, much arched and carinate on the back : 

 gill-cover of many pieces: lateral line broad, white, crooked; first 

 dorsal-fin triangular, ending in a long fibre : pectoral-fins with a 

 dusky fpot at the bottom : vent nearer the head : dorfal-fins 12, 20, 

 20-rayed ; pectoral 18 : ventral 6 ; anal 19, 19 ; fa*74orayed. 



2fJ. G. minutus. Silvery, with the back brownish : upper- 

 jaw longer: each side the lower-jaw 9 punctures: vent 

 in the middle of the body. 



Poor. Br. Zool. iii. t. 30. Block t, 6y. f. 1. 



Body about 6 inches long, with dusky fpots on the sides : head ra- 

 ther sharp : iris silvery, pupil black : lower-jaw with a single beard : 

 lateral-line straight, narrow : tail a little forked : belly black within: 

 dorfal-fins 12, 19, 17-rayed; pectoral 13; ventral 6; anal 27, 17 r 

 caudal 18-rayed. 



