Class IV. 



S M E L T 



the back and fides of a fine filvery grey, but when 

 the fifth is juft taken, varied (lightly with blue and 

 gold : the fide-line is ftrait. 



The fcales large, and the lower edges dufky, 

 forming ftrait rows from head to tail. 



The firft dorfal fin has twenty-one rays; the 

 three or four firft are the fhorteft, the others almoft 

 of equal lengths •, this fin is fpotted, all the others 

 are plain. 



The tail is much forked. 



3 1 , 



Epelan demer. Belcn, 282. 

 Eperlanus. Rondel. Jtwviat. 



196. Gefner pifc. 362. 

 Spirincus et Stincus. Gefner 



Paralip. 29. 

 A Spyrling a Sprote. Turner 



epiji. ad. Gefn. 

 Stindt, et Stinckfifch. Scho- 



nevelde, 70- 

 A Smelt, Wil. Icth. 202. 



Rail fyn. pifc. 66. 

 Ofmerus radiis pinnae ani fep- 



tendecim. Arted. fynon. 21. 

 Salmo eperlanus. S. capite 



diaphano, radiis pinnae ani 



feptendecim. Lin. fyfl. 511. 



Grono'v. Zooph. No. 

 Nors, Slom. Faun. fuec. No. 



35°- 



ici. Smelt, 



THE fmelt inhabits the feas of the northern 

 parts of Europe^ and we believe never is 

 found as far fouth as the Mediterranean : the Seine 

 is one of the French rivers which receive it, but 

 whether it is found fouth of that, we have not at 

 prefent authority to fay. If we Can depend on the 

 obfervations of navigators, who generally have too 

 much to think of to attend to the minutiae of na- 

 tural hiftory, thefe fifli are taken in the ftraits of 



Magellan^ 



