206 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .America. 



S. Clupea harengus (?), Lin. 



Back green and gold : belly and sides white, with pearly lustre and violet reflections 

 sides of head deeply tinged with gold-yellow. The edge of the labials is minutely toothed, 

 and there is a cluster of minute teeth on the vomer. Scales large, thin, orbicular. 



D. 19. P. 10. V. 8. A. 16. C. (?). Length, 15 inches. 



Arctic Seas, Richardson. 



Called " Kapiselik," by the Greenlanders. 



Clupea harengus, Lin., Syst. Nat., p. 522 



" " Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 182. 



" " Common Herring, Shaw's Gen. Zool., V. p lu6, fig. 



" •' Blo.ii, i. p. 19, pi 29, fig. 1 



" " Rich., Franklin's Journal, p. 716. 



" " Fleming's Brit. An , p. 1 



'■ " Pennant's Aret Zoo'l., vm p 335, pi 29. 



" " Rich., Fauna Boreal Americ, in. p. 229. 



" ' ; (?), Dekav's Reporl, p. -55. 



It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Arctic species is the harengus, and I introduce it. 

 is did Dekay into his Report, with a query. 



GENUS II. ALOSA, Cuv. 

 Upper jaw with a deep notch in the centre ; in other respects like the 

 Clupea. 



1. Alosa sapidissima, Wilson. 



Body oblong, compressed- Bluish upon the top of the head and on the back ; the upper 

 portion of the sides, including the opercula, cupreous ; beneatli silvery. At the posterior 

 angle of the operculum, a black blotch of considerable size, which is sometimes very indistinct. 

 When the scales are removed from the sides, six or eight other similar spots are noticed. 

 Upon the middle of the caudal fin are two membranous appendages on each side. Scales 

 large, rhomboidal upon the sides, rounded on the abdomen. Abdominal ridge serrated- 



D. 19. P. 16. V. 9. A. 20. C. 20i Length, 20 inches. Weight, 2 to 6 pounds. 



Maine, Linsley. New Hampshire, Belknap. Massachusetts, Storer. Connecti- 

 cut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, Dekav. South Carolina, Virginia, Dekay. 



Clupea sapidissima, Wilson, Rees's Encycloped. (American edit.) ; catalogued, but not described. 



" " Raf., Amer. Month, Mag , n. p. 205. 



Clupea alosa, Shad, Belknap's Hist, of New Hampshire, in. p 130, 



Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Sue. of N. Y., I. p . I '..' 



Clupea indigena, Sprat Herring, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 454 fj ■ 



Alosa vulgaris, Common Shad, Stoker's Report, p. 11G. 

 Alosa prreslabilis, American Shad, Pekay's Report p. 255, pi. 15, fig. 41. 



Alosa sapidissima, Shad, Wllson, Linsley's Cat, of Fishes of Connecticut, Silliman's Journal, xi.vn. 

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