5. CLUPEA. 433 



h. Fine specimen. Dorainicia. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



c-d. Young. Puerto Cabcllo. Purchased of ilr. Brandt. 



e. Adult. Trinidad. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



/. Adult. Granada. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



r/. Fine specimen. San Domingo. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



h. Adult. Cuba. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



i-o. Adult: skins. Jamaica. Purchased of Mr. Paruell. 



p, q, r-u. Adult. West Indies. 



V. Adult : skeleton. Barbadoes. Purchased of Mr. Cutter. 



On an accessoiy branchial organ and tlie intestines sec Ilyrtl, 

 Denksclu'. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1855, x. pp. 48 & 51. 



31. Clupea libertatis. 



Meletta libertatis, Giintli. Proc. Zool. )%c. 18GG, p. 603. 

 Yery similar to Clupea ihrissa. 



D. 17. A. 19. L. lat. 48. 

 The last dorsal ray is produced into a long filament. The height 

 of the body is a little more than the length of the head, which is con- 

 tained thrice and t\vo-thirds iu the total (without caudal). Struc- 

 ture of head, fins, and scales as in 67. tJu-issa. No humeral spot. 



Pacific coast of Central America. 

 a. Type of the species, 2| inches long. Libertad. From Mr. Salvin's 

 Collection. 



2. The last dorsal rai/ not prohnycd (Alosa) . 

 A. Atlantic species, 



32. Clupea alosa. 



The Shad. The AUis or iUlice Shad. Der IMai-Fisch or Die Alse. 



Alausa, Au,son. v. v. 127; Bellon. Be Aquat. p. 309; Salvian. fol. 104. 



Trichis, Bellon. De Aquat. p. 300. 



Thrissa, HomU. p. 220. 



Allis, Fcnn. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 307. 



Clupea, sp., Gronov. Zooplixjl. no. 347. 



Clupea alosa (part.), L, Si/st. Nat. i. p. 523. 



Hareugus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. v. p. 72. no 5, 1. 19. f. 4. 



Clupea rufa, Laccp. v. p. 452. 



Clupea alosa, Cm: Rer/ne An.; Jeni/ns, Man. p. 438; Gronov. Syst. 



ed. Graj/, p. 1-39; Giinth. Fische d. Neekars, p. 121. 

 Alo3a comnmuis, YarrcU, Prit. Fish. 2ud edit. ii. p. 213, or 3rd edit. 



i. p. 133 ; Parnell, Werner. Mem. vii. p. 330 ; or Fish. Firth of 



Forth, p. 170. 

 Alau.=a vulgaris (part.), Cuv.Sf Val. xx. p. 301 ; Uechel ^- Kner, Sitss- 



wasserf. p. 228. fig. 133. 

 Alosa vulgaris, Troschel, Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 223 ; Selys-Lomjeh. 



Faun. Belqe, p. 220 ; Siebo'ld, Siisswasserji-iche, p. 328. 

 AUis Shad, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. p. 117, pi. 204, 

 Skeleton : Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. v. 2. p. Ill, pi. 1. 



Remarl-s on the Sunonymtj of Clupea alosa and Clupea finta. 

 Although several authors, especially Cuvicr, distinguished these 

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