THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 



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end of the dorsal fin on the level of the eye. This resembles the hickory shad, 

 Povtolobus inediocris, more than anything else, and it probably was that species. 



The Glut Herring arrives later than the Branch Herring and does not ascend 

 streams far above salt water. It appears to spawn only in the larger streams or 

 their tidal tributaries and at a temperature of 70° to 75° ; while the Branch Herring 

 spawns in water as low as 55° to 60° and ascends far up the streams and their small 

 fresh-water branches. 



In Gravesend Bay the Glut Herring is called Shad Herring. November 30, 1897, 

 two young fish of the year, measuring about 7 inches in length, were obtained from 

 that bay. In Great South Bay the species is called Herring. A single example 

 was secured there on September 29, 1890. In 1898 it was not collected either in 

 Great .South Bay or Mecox, in both of which the Branch Herring was abundant. 



At Provincetown the species is known as the Blueback and Kiouk. According to 



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GLUT HERRING — FEMALE. 



Storer, it appears there in small numbers in May, but is not abundant before June 

 10, and it remains on the coast for a short time only. The Alewife, or Branch 

 Herring, arrives on the coast of Massachusetts about the end of March, and is taken 

 till the middle or last of May. 



46. Shad {Alosa sapidissiina Wilson). 



Cliipea sapid is si ma Bean, Fishes Penna., 60, pi. 2, 1893 ; Cheney, 4th Ann. Rep. N. Y. 



Com. Fish, colored pi. facing p. 8, 1899. 

 Alosa pnu'stabilis DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 255, pi. 15, fig. 41, 1842. 

 Alosa sapidissima Jordan & Evermann, Bull, 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 427, 1S96, pi. 



LXXII, fig. 191, 1900. 



The .Shad is known also as the White Shad, and in the Colonial days it was 

 known to the negroes on the lower Potomac River as Whitefish. It is found natu- 

 rally along the Atlantic Coast of North America from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to 

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