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List of fishes 



generally swarms with the fry. The number of 

 different provincial names bestowed on this spe- 

 cies is amusing, and sometimes indeed rather per- 

 plexing. Here the fry are called podleys ; in Ork- 

 ney and Shetland they are called sillocks. When 

 a year old, the coal-fish begins to blacken over the 

 gills, and on the ridge of the back ; and we have 

 then a new series of names : among the Hebrides, 

 cuddies; in Sutherland, glassocks ; in Orkney, 

 cooths ; and in Shetland, piltocks. When full 

 grown, they are quite black, and have still other 

 names bestowed on them, as colmeys, sethes, 

 seys, and grey-lords. The coal-fish seems to 

 abound in the whole North Sea, to the highest la- 

 titudes. It was the only kind of fish found by 

 Lord Mulgrave at Spitzbergen *. 



G. Pollachius. Pollack ; Lytbe. 

 Not common here* 



G. virens. Green Gadus of Dr Shaw. 



This is not unlike the young coal-fish ; but its 

 back is green, the lateral line quite straight, and 

 the tail more deeply forked. It is taken in our 

 Frith during summer. 



G. Molva. Ling. 



This species scarcely ever enters the Frith ; but 

 it is found off the Isle of May in the spring 

 months. 



* Phipps' Voyage. 



