SHAD. 98.S 



lung IjfC'ii kiiDWi'i tliMt (hiring tlie spMwiiing-st'nsoii tlio I T\vait<^ or tlie Allicc Sluid, tliougli tlie two last-inc-ntioiifd 

 Pilchard is so dn' and tasteless as to be seareely | forms do not lireed, so t'ai- as we know, in salt water. 



eatable. 



Man is not tlie Piicliard's oni\' (nieniw l''islies and 



Dolphins make ha\i)c among its slioals. Among them 



Sharks (such as Si/K(ih(s (uanfhiaf: nm] Carcharias fflan- 



ciis) and Scia-noids are the most destructive. 

 . Couch" has described and figured a Cliipca sqiia- 



mo-pinnata, which is stated to have larger scales than I smaller scales, like tliose of the Herring, on the other 

 ' the Shads, and has tlierefore lieen explained by (Us- side, 'fliis form has Ixien ligured and described by Day'' 



TtiEi;'' as a hvl)rid l)etween tlie Filcliard and citlier tlie as a cross between the Pilchard and the Herring. 



The defective specimen, the only one known, can only 

 serxc, which was all that Coucii intended, as an in- 

 centive to further investigations. More,' notoworthy is 

 another form, also found in Knglish watei's, which re- 

 sembles the Pilchard in the striation of the opercula 

 and the large scales on one side of the body, but has 



THE SHAD (sw. stamsillen). 

 CLUPEA ALOSA. 



Fig. 24S iukI riale XI.III. tig. ■_'. 



Lenijfli of the )ii(i.iill(iri('s at li-ast ahmil 4'> % of that of the head. LoiHiitiulhial diameter <if tl/e e;/es'' at most 



(diotit ')(l %, least depth of the tail about 7 ■'> %, leiijith of the sidioperraJiitii' at most altoat 4!) %, of tlie leitf/fh 



of tlie ma.iillaries. Xiimlier of- scales in a roir aJoiK/ the sides of the Iwdii at least (dioat (10. 



Fip. 248. Clupea nlosa, var. >n(a, ?, ' , of tlic- natiiriil si/e. ■{'nki-ii in a SaliiKHi-traii i.tf Killii.gljMlin (Slromsl.id Fjord) on llie I81I1 .July, 



1881. I.v Mr. C. A. Hansson. 



'■ 1. f.. p. 1 '_>:■,. |.l. CCVI. 



' Cat.. \. <:., p. 431;. 



' Proc. Zool. Soc. I.oimI. 1887. p. 12!). pi. XV. 



'' In specimens more tlian 1 dm. long. 



"■ .\t llic suture witli tlie opcrL-uImn. 



Scanrlinarinii Fishen. 



