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nished with only two rays, seem to justify its being 

 rather considered as a Bienny than a Gadus. It 

 has however a general resemblance to that genus, 

 being of a similar shape, and having a beard 

 beneath the lower lip : it is a native of the Euro- 

 pean se^as, and is so well described by Mr. Pennant 

 in the British Zoology that nothing need be added 

 to the account there detailed. 



" The length of one that was taken on the Flint- 

 shire shores was eleven inches and a half ; its 

 greatest depth three inches ; but, according to 

 Dr. Borlace *, some grow to be above eighteen 

 inches long. The head sloped down to the nose 

 in the same easy manner with others of this genus 

 (Gadus) : the mouth large : besides the teeth in the 

 jaws, was a triangular congeries of small teeth 

 in the roof of the mouth. At the end of the lower 

 jaw was a small beard : the first dorsal fin was tri- 

 angular ; the first ray extended far beyond the 

 rest, and was very slender : the second fin began 

 just behind the first, and extended almost to the 

 tail : the ventral fins were three inches long, and 

 consisted only of two rays, joined at the bottom, 

 and separated or bifurcated towards the end : the 

 vent was in the middle of the body ; the anal fin 

 extended from thence just to the tail : the lateral 

 line was incurvated : the tail rounded. The colour 

 was a cinereous brown." 



* Nat. Hist. Cornw. p. 268. 



