34$ S H A D. Class IV. 



the Bee above a century ago *. Since that time no 

 notice has been taken of it, till a few were taken 

 near my houfe in 1769. 



The length of the largeft was fix inches and an 

 half: the body (lender, but thicker in proportion 

 than the herring. 



The eyes were large : the irides white, with a 

 call: of yellow : the under jaw much fhorter than 

 the tipper: the teeth fmall; a row in each jaw, 

 and another on the middle of the tongue. The 

 tongue doubly ciliated on both fides. The dorfal 

 fin confifted of twelve rays, was tranfparent, and 

 placed nearer the nofe than the tail. 



The fcales large and deciduous : back green 

 and femipellucid : fides and belly filvery and 

 opake : edge of the belly fmooth : the tail forked. 



164. Shad, ®furaa> Arift, Hi/?, an. lib. Shad, or Mother of Herrings. 



IX. c. 37. Strabo lib. XV. Wil. Icth. 227. Raii fyn. 



486. XVIT. 566. Athenteiis, pifc. 105. 



lib. IV. 131. VII. 328. Clupea apice maxilla fupe- 



Oppian Halieut. I. 244. riore bifido, maculis nigris 



Alaufa ? Aufonii Mofella, 128. utrinque. Arted. Jynon. 



Laccia, chiepa. Safoian, 104. 15. 



I/Alofe. Belon, 307. Clupea alofa. CI. lateribus 



Thrifla. Rondel. 220. Gefner nigro maculatis, roftro bi- 



pifc. 20. £do. Lin.JyJl. 523. Grono<v. 



Bayckc,Meyfifch. Schonevelde, Zooph. No.^tf. 



*3- 



NEITHER Ariftotky Athen<eus^ nor Oppian, 

 have defcribed their ®^<ra with fuch pre- 

 * ftafj Letters, 47. 



cifiori, 



