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WHITE. Class IV. 



The back was dufky ; the fides tinged with a 

 purplifh bloom, marked with deep purple fpots, 

 mixed with black, above and below the fide line 

 which was ftrait : the belly white. 



The firfh dorfal fin was fpotted ; the fpurious fin 

 brown, tipped with red ; the pectoral, ventral, and 

 anal fins, of a pale brown; the edges of the anal 

 fin white : the tail very little forked when extend- 

 ed. 



147. White. fT^HIS fpecies migrates out of the fea into the 

 A river Ejk in Cumberland from July to Sep- 

 tember^ and is called from its color the Whiting. 

 When dreffed, their flefh is red, and mod delicious 

 eating. They have, on their firft appearance from 

 the fait water, the lernaa falmonea, or falmon loufe, 

 adhering to them. They have both melt and 

 fpawn ; but no fry has as yet been obferved. This 

 is the fifli called by the Scots, Phinocs. 



They never exceed a foot in length. The up- 

 per jaw is a little longer than the lower: in the 

 firft are two rows of teeth ; in the laft, one : on 

 the tongue are fix teeth. 



The back is ftrait : the whole body of an ele- 

 gant form : the lateral line is ftrait ; color, be- 

 tween that and the top of the back, duiky and 

 filvery intermixed ; beneath the line cf an exqui- 



fite 



