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83.— CLUPEID^E. 



Brevoortia menhaden (Mitch.) Gill.— Menhaden {Vineyard Sound;) 

 munnawhatteaug (Narragansett Indians) ; pogy, poghaden (east coast 

 of Xew England); moss-bunker (New York); panhadeu, panhagen (New 

 England); hard-head, bony-fish (Massachusetts Bay); skippaug or 

 bunker (cast end of Long Island); bony-fish (SaybrooJc) ; white-fish 

 (SaybrooJc to Milford, Connecticut) ; fat-back and yellow-tail (coast of 

 North Carolina); bug-fish (Carolina). 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 

 Alosa sapidissima (Wilson) Storer. — Shad. 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Opisthone^ia thrissa Gill. — Thread-herring ; menhaden (Portland); 

 shad-herring (New York). 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Pomolobus RSEUDOHARENGrUS (Wilson) Gill. — Herring (Southern 

 States); alewife (New England); gaspereau (British provinces); spring- 

 herring (Neic England); aumsuog (Narragansett Indians) ; kyack, blue- 

 back, alewife, sawbelly, cat-thresher (Portland, Me.) 

 Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Pomolobus mediocris (Mitch.) Gill. — Tailor herring (Potomac) ; fall- 

 shad. 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Clupea harengus Linn. — English herring. 

 Polar regions to Cape Cod. 



SL— DOROSOMID.F. 



Dorosoma Cepediantjm (Lac.) Gill. — Toothed herring. 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 



85.— ENGRAULIDJE. 



Engraulis vittatus (Mitch.) Bd. and Girard. — Anchovy. 



Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 

 Engraulis Brownii (Gmelin) Val. — Anchovy. 



Cape Cod to Florida (New York, Val). 



SC— SILURID^E. 

 m lurichthys marinus ( Mitch. ) Baird and Girard. — Fork-tailed cat-fish. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 

 Ariopsis Milberti (Val.) Gill. — Sea cat-fish. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 



87.— CONGRID^. 



Conger oceanica (Mitch.) Gill. — Conger-eel. 

 Newfoundland to West Indies. 



88.— ANGUILLID.E. 



Angtjilla bostoniensts (Les.) DeKay. — Common eel. 

 Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. 



