s 
SEBASTE8. 
The head and body compressed, with scales which on the head 
proceed to or beyond the orbits; the back part of the head having a 
few small spines. The first gill-cover armed. The dorsal fin single 
formed by a notch into spinous and soft divisions. 
BERGYLT. 
NORWAY HADDOCK. 
Perea marina, 
Sehastes Norvegicus, 
Holocenire Norvegien, 
Serraniis Norvegicus, 
Scorpeena Norvegica, 
LlNNiEUS. 
OoviEB. Taeeeli,; Br. F., vol. i, p. 87. 
Lacepede. 
FLE.MmG; Br. Animals, p. 212. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 347. 
Report of Natural History Society of 
Dublin, 1856-7. 
Guntiiee; Catalogue of Br. Museum, 
vol. ii, p. 95. 
This fish is a native of the Northern Ocean, being found as 
far north as Greenland; and it is not uncommon on the coast 
of Norway. ^ Its appearance in Zetland also cannot be regarded 
as sHange since it is sufficiently well known there as to have 
o aiimd a familiar name. The terms Bergylt, Norwegian Carp, 
and Norway Haddock, however inappropriate the latter may 
be as sipifying a likeness to Gadoid or Cod-like fishes, are 
designations applied to it by fishermen of those islands It 
scarcely appears by its form to be well fitted for extensive 
wandering; and yet several instances have occurred to shew 
that its visits to the British Islands are not uncommon. 
Pennant must have had authority for classing it among British 
fishes, and Dr. 1 leming had seen an examine in Zetland. The 
latter also reports its occurrence on the coast of Aberdeenshire; 
