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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



17-20. Pelvics 8-rayed, inserted in or a little behind the vertical from origin of dorsal, 

 rarely a little in advance of it. Vertebrae 49-51. 



Hab. Patagonian-Falklands region; Straits of Magellan. 



In addition to the above, there are a number of specimens from the Falklands in the 

 British Museum, including some collected from the shore by Mr Hamilton and 

 Mr Bennett. The fish is known locally as "Herring" or "Pilchard", and in size and 

 other characteristics is more or less intermediate between the European Herring and 



Fig. 14. Clupea fuegensis. x §. 



Sprat. Mr Bennett notes that its occurrence is very erratic, but he does not know of 

 its capture before 5 October or after April. An occasional shoal is heralded by hundreds 

 and even thousands of shags. Locally there is no means of catching the fish unless 

 they approach close enough to the shore to enable a seine to be used. Hussakof records 

 that the native Indians go out in boats to the kelp, and catch the fishes in their hands, 

 while they are feeding. In February 1904, an extraordinary shoal of these fishes entered 

 Stanley Harbour, and it is recorded that they formed the staple diet of the inhabitants 

 for days. 



Clupea bentincki, Norman. 



1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) xvn, p. 491. 



Hab. Chile. 



This is the fish commonly known in Chile as " Sardina ", and proves to be distinct from 

 C. fuegensis. A fine series of specimens from Talcahuano, where it is said to be very 

 common, has been received from Mr Cavendish Bentinck. 



Fig. 15. Clupea bentincki. Holotype. x 1. 



