Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . s 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
Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . s 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 about equal in estimation as an article offood with its congeners. (iKNKIfAL DESCKllTloN. •.-.•I TIM. \\;l( \\ \\ 111 I l\( Mtrlan;fM The American Whiilng. This is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-known lisji,that which is commonly called lllittin;/ hein;.; in :i Ilukc[Mfrhiciuit). It ranj^es oidy from Massachusetts northward. It is easily distinguished hy its long, tapering, cylindricalIjudy, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. Its colour is, above the lateral line, a bright nacrous bluishgrey, and below a silvery white, with tins nearly of the sanucolour. The head of the ^^hiting is acutely pruli>n:_((l ; th(* eyeslarge and [)nimincnt ; the gill-cu\»rs rounded ; tlic teeth Nliarpand small. The three dorsals have respectively tliirtccti, twenty, aiultwenty rays; the pectorals, nineteen; the vcntrals, .six; theanals, respectivj-Iy twenty-four and twenty-one ; and the caudal,thirty-two. The \Vliiting is a delicate fish. It is taken in the sanu-mnnner and in the .«uimc waters with the Cod an
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