plate ir. 
Bloc’i and Gmelin have followed Willughby in making this kind 
a mere vanety of the Gadus Mustella, or Five bearded Cod ; but we 
must agree with Pennant, who donsiders it as a disdnct species. 
Pennant says, he has always observed the number of the beards in 
te spotted kind not to exceed three, nor the number in the brown 
k.nd to be less than five; that the first ray of the dorsal fin is longer, 
and that there is some difference in the form as well as colour; the 
Five bearded Cod being thicker in proportion than the other. Having 
both kinds before us, we cannot hesitate to believe they are distinct 
species, and have assigned the present a specific character in con- 
sequence. 
Our specimen is Sfeen inches in length. The bmnehiostegenns 
rays seven. In ,he fi„, dorsd (in, distinct my, the „st minute 
am numerous. Second dors.l fin ofi iif,y.f„„r „ys. psctoml fin 
tv»ty my. Ventml fins fleshy,- second „y longest. An-sl fin 
forty-six. Tail twenty^four. 
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