Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . ng two or three dorsal and anal fins. The colom of this well-known species, which attains to aA ast weight, sometimes seventy or eighty pounds, varies muchin individuals. It is generally greenish brown, fading into ash-rolour M lien the fish is dead, with many reddish yellow spots. GENERA!. DESCRIPTION. 289 The belly silvery opaque white, the fins pale green, the lateralline dead white. Tlie body is long and cylindrical, the head sloping in anarched line, the eyes large, the scales small and adhesiv
Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . ng two or three dorsal and anal fins. The colom of this well-known species, which attains to aA ast weight, sometimes seventy or eighty pounds, varies muchin individuals. It is generally greenish brown, fading into ash-rolour M lien the fish is dead, with many reddish yellow spots. GENERA!. DESCRIPTION. 289 The belly silvery opaque white, the fins pale green, the lateralline dead white. Tlie body is long and cylindrical, the head sloping in anarched line, the eyes large, the scales small and adhesive. Ithas a cirrus or barbel at the extremity of the lower jaw. It hasfour rows of teeth on the upper, and one on the lower jaw. It has three dorsal fins, respectively of fifteen, twenty-two,and nineteen rays; pectorals, nineteen rays; vcntrals, six anal fins respectively of twenty-two and nineteen rays;caudal, forty rays. It is a bold and voracious fish, ranging from New Yorknorthwardly along all the coasts of America. 290 GADID^. THE AJUERICAX HADDOCK. Morrhua jEglefinis— The American Haddock. The distinctive colouring of tliis fish is blackish brown above^and silvery grey below the lateral line, which is jet black. Theback and sides are varied by purplish and golden gleams; thereis a large dark vertical patch posterior to the pectorals^ crossingthe lateral line. The fins are dusky blue. The body of the Haddock is stout anteriorly, and taperingbackward. The head laige and arched. The eyes are lower jaw is the shortest; the teeth small, in a single rowon each jaw; a single small barbel on the chin. It has three dorsals, the first and third triangular, the secondlongest, respectively of fifteen, twenty-two, and twenty pectorals have twenty-one ; the ventrals, sixteen; the twoanals, respectively, twenty-five and twenty-one; and the caudal,thirty-four rays. The range of the Haddock is similar to that of the Cod; it isvery abundant, and is abou
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