Class IV. H E R R I N G. 



335 



Eight branchioftegous rays. 



The belly extremely (harp, and often ferrated. 



XXXIX. 

 HERRING, 



Aringha ex cimbricis littori- 



bus. Jo<vius 9 143. 

 Hareng, efpece de Chalcis. 



Belon, 169. 

 Harengus. Rondel. 222. Gef- 



ner pifc. 410. 

 Heringk. Scbonevelde, 37. 

 Herring. Wil. Icth. 219. 



Raii fyn. pifc. 103. 

 Clupea maxilla inferiore lon- 

 giore maculis carens. Arted. 



Jynon. 14. a. $. 

 Clupea Harengus. CI. im- 



maculata, maxilla inferiore 



longiore. Lin. fyft. 522. 

 > Gronov. Zooph. No. 348. 

 Sill. Faun. Suec. No. 357. a. 



Stroioming. Faun. Suec. 



No - 357. 0. 

 Stromling*. Wulff. Borufs. 



No. 50. 



160. Bri- 

 tish 



'"TpHE herring was unknown to the antienrs, Name, 



A notwithftanding the words x*tw$ and poems, 

 are by tranflators rendered Hakcf, the characters 

 given of thofe fifh are common to fuch numbers 

 of different fpecies, as render it impoflible to fay 

 which they intended. 



Herrings are found from the higheft northern Place. 

 latitudes yet known, as low as the northern coafh 

 of France ; and excepting one inftance brought by 



* The herring of the Baltic, in all refpe&s is like ours, but 

 fmaller. 



f Which word, in fpke of all lexicographers, never iignified 

 any thing but the garum or pickle. Fide p. 221. 



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