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GREEN POLLACK. 
From a distant date a fish called the Green Pollack has 
occupied a place in the list of British natural history, and it 
has a station in the system of Linnaeus, with the name of 
Gaclus virens. Other references are: — 
Asellus virescena, 
Gade sey, 
Merlangus virem, 
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Willoughby; p. 173, table L. M. N. 1. 
But he had never seen the fish, and 
supposes it to be the young condition of 
the Pollack, which his own figure might 
have taught him it was not. 
Lacepede. Risso. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 195. 
Jesyns; Manual, p. 44-7. 
Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 256. 
We believe that a notice of the Green Pollack, in the 
supposition that it is a distinct species, was communicated to 
Pennant by Sir John Colliim, who obtained it in Devonshire; 
and if so the fish must be the same as that with which we 
are acquainted, and as is represented by Mr. Yarrell, in which 
case it certainly is as we have described it. But our fish 
does not closely answer to the figure given by Fries and 
Eckstrom. I possess no other than the first edition of Pennant’s 
work, in Avhich there is no account of the Green Pollack. 
This fish is common, and at times abundant, even in con- 
siderable schools, which are sometimes seen in harbours, or the 
close neighbourhood of the shore. But without hesitation I 
express the opinion that it is only the young form of , the 
Coalfish or Banning Pollack, of which the gradations may be 
traced in all stages of its growth from five or six inches in 
