84 
COALFISH. 
RAUNINQ POLLACK. 
Asellus niger, 
Oadus carbonarius. 
Oade colin, 
Gadus carbonarius. 
Willoughby; Table L., p. 168. 
LiNNjEUS. 
Lacepedb. Risso. 
Donovan; pi. 13. But his figure is faulty, 
not only in the colour, but in placing the 
dorsal and anal fins too far separate from 
Merlangus carbonarius, 
it 
Gadus virens (?) 
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each other. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 196. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 466. 
Yabkell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p 250 
Goniher; Cat. Br. M., vol. iv, p. 339. 
When we seek for information from different sources on the 
natural history of fishes, we are liable to be misled by finding 
that diflerent kinds are sometimes called by the same name 
and more frequently that one species shall bear a multiplicity 
of names, even in districts not very distant from each other 
In the history of our “Fishes of the British Islands” we have 
found rt^ generally convenient to omit all reference to these 
local designations, as having little meaning attached to them 
and which wc should be well pleased to find discarded from 
the memory. But for once we depart from our rule that we 
may record an instance of these variations of denomination; 
and It seems the more appropriate in this instance, as it forms 
almost an integral portion of the history of the Coalfish, which 
is thus more diversely characterized than anv other with which 
we are acqumnied. In Ireland it bears ' a different name 
according to its stage of growth: the very young being known 
as Gdpins, from which they grow to be Blockan and Grey'ords- 
and when of full size they are Glashan, or Glossan, and Glassin 
Moulrush and Black Pollack are other names, with Glassock- 
Billets and Biliards in Yorkshire; Sey Pollack, Podley Sillock’ 
Cooth, Pittock Sethe, Colmey, Harbin, Coalsey, CudLn, and 
Green Cod. _ Willoughby says it is called Eawlin Pollack in 
Cornwall, which is grounded in nothing more than error of 
