FISHES. JUGULAR. 1 6. Gadus; 73* 
Bearded ; jaw-s equal ; tail nearly oval. Burbsi, 
Inhabits clear freflr waters of Europe, Siberia and India ; feeds 
oil leffer fifb ; grows fall and reaches as far as 3 feet long ; is 
a very cunning anfl fertile fifh; body varied with brown and 
yellow, beneath white, covered with mucus and very faiall 
foft fcales ; JleJh white and excellent. 
/dead large, broad; eyes lateral, fraall, pupil blueifh, iris yel- 
low ; moulb large ; jaws with 7 rows of fliarp teeth, the 
lower bearded with 1, rarely a cirri, and ^ on the nofe ; 
tonjriie and fjll-membrane broad ; lateral line ftraight ; iorfal 
and^ anal fins long, narrow ; vent in the middle of th« 
bellv. 
Dorf. 14, 68 : peEt. zo : vent. 6 : 
an. 67 ; caud. 36 rays. 
'ir 
"A/a. Cirri 4 on the upper jaw, i on the lower ; firft dorfal fin 
obfolete, lodged in a furrow with a cirrus before it ; 
no bending lateral line, Ftve-.btarded Cod. 
Inhabits and Mediterranean Jens j 19 inches long ; 
feeds on teftaceous animals and crabs; body covered with 
mucus andi very Imall fcales, yellowifli-brown, beneath 
white and not {potted as is the next. 
Head fmall, filvery tinged with violet ; pupil black, iris gol- 
den ; mouth large ; teeth fmall, fharp ; upper jaw longer j 
tail rounded ; firll dorfal fin very narrow. 
Dorf. i, 42 : peS. 14: vent. 7 : an, 40 : caud. 25 rays. 
'T' ■ 
t^i'-^cra. Cirri 2 on the upper jaw, lower o ; firft obfo- 
' Icte without the cirrus before it ; lateral line angular, 
curved. Three~bearded Cad. Rockling. 
2. Cirrus only one, on the lower jaw. 
Inhabits with the laft, which it much refembles, except that 
the body is covered with brown fpols. 
Cirri 4; firft dorfal fin obfolete, the firft ray fpear* 
lhaped. 
Inhabits the Atlantic and Norway feas. 
Cirri 2 on the nofe, 1 on the upper lip and i ori *he tower j 
firft dorfal fin hardly difcemable, the firft ray fubulate, and 
branched in the form of the letter T, which chiefly m-, 
guiflies it from G. muftela. 
Dorf 1, 48 : pea. 16; vent. 7; an. 4 ? : ^5 «y®* 
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