70 
BIB. 
WHITING POUT. BLENS. BLINDS. 
Asellus luscus, 
Gadus lusms^ 
Gade tamid, 
Morrhua lusca, 
** 44 
Gadus luscus, 
44 44 
VViLLouGHBr; p. 169. table L. 
Linn^ds. Bloch; pi, 166. 
Donovan; pi. 19 
Lacepede. 
Cuvier. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p 191. 
Yabkell; Br, F., vol. ii. p, 237 
Jenyns; Manual, p. -142. 
Gunther; Cat. British Museum, 
vol. iv, p. 335. 
TT ‘he coasts of the 
United but is scarcely common in the north of Scot- 
land and Ireland. On the .other hand, it is found in the south 
and west of the last named country and England through the 
year, and at time.s, especially in the autumn and winter it is 
even abundant. Its chief resort is in rocky places, where it 
finds us congenial food in the multitude of crustaceous animals 
and small hshes which frequent such neighbourhoods, but 
sometimes they pass into gullies and recesses where the bottom 
IS irregular or formed into pits. In general the food is sought 
for at an higher elevation than is usual with the Cod and Had 
dock, and consequently what is found in the stomach is of a 
different kind. 
The spawn is shed towards the end of winter, and, perhans 
generally later than in several others of this family of fishes’ 
Considerable numbers are sometimes caught with a line h t 
although good as food, they do not stand on equality with the 
Cod or 'Hnting and they are supposed to suffer decomposition 
more speedily than these fishes. When drawn up with a line 
It is common to find the transparent covering of the eye inflated 
