Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 207 



2. Alosa tyrannus, Latrobe. 



Body elongated, strongly compressed. Of a bluish purple-eolor on the back : the sides a 

 light cupreous ; beneath silvery; four or five, ami sometimes even more, indistinct greenish 

 longitudinal lines upon the sides. A deep black blotch just hack of the posterior angle of 

 the operculum. Scales very large and deciduous. Anal nearly even. Caudal deeply 

 forked. 



I). IT. P. 15. V. 9. A. 18. C 21^. Length, 8 to 10 inches. 



New Hampshire, Peck. Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. New York, 

 Mitchill, Dekay. Chesapeake Bay, Mitchill. 



Clupea serrata, Peck, Belknap's Hist, of New Hamp hire, m. p. 1.33. 



' .' pe i tyrannus, Bay Alewife, Latrobe, Amer. Phil. Soc. Trans., v. p. 77, pi. I. 



I i , Herring or Alewife, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 151. 



Alosa vernalis, Spring Herring or Atewive Storer's Report, p. 111. 



Alosa lyran in Alewive, Dekay's Report, p. 258, pi. 13, fig. 38. 



Alosa rernalis, Linsley 's Cat. of Fishes of Connecticut, Silliman's Journal, xr.vn. 



3. Alosa menhaden, Mitchill. 



Body much compressed. Abdomen serrated; serrations sharper behind the venlrals. 

 Greenish brown upon the back, darker upon the top of the head and at the snout; roseate 

 iipnii t lie upper part of the sides; silvery upon the abdomen; gill-covers cupreous, with a 

 rosy lint ; a more or less distinct black spot upon the shoulders. Scales large, elliptical, cil- 

 iate at edge. An accessory plate on each side of the ventrals. 



D. 19. P. 15, 16, or 17. V. 6. A. 20, 21, or 22. C. 20 3 . Length, 8 to 14 inches. 



Maine, Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Ayres, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, 



Dekay. 



Ulupea uv .ili m1. ii, Bony fi^h, Hardheads, or Marsh-bankers of New York, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. 



S'»-. of N. Y., i. p. 453, pi. 5, fig. 7. 

 Alosa menhaden, Menhaden, Hard-head, Storer's Report, p. 117. 

 " " Moss-bonker, Dekay's Report, p. 259, pi. 21, fig. CO. 



" " Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 275. 



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4. Alosa mattowacca, Mitchill. 



Bluish green on the back ; silvery, with a series of dark rounded spots, on the sides. 

 Back regularly arched throughout. Abdomen serrated. Tongue with a band of teeth. 

 Caudal pouches. 



D. 18. P. 10. V. 9. A. 20. C. 20§. Length, 20 inches. 



Connecticut, Ayres, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



('ailed " Autumnal or Fall Herring," " Shad Herring," or " Greenback." 



ittowaca, Long Island Herring, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 451, pi. 5, 

 . 

 Clupea t i , . ] ocris, Staten I iland Herring, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. anil Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 451. 

 Alosa mattowacca, Autumnal Herrin I 1 B ly's Report, p. 2G0, pi. -10, fig. 127. 

 " '• Ayres, Bost. Jonrn. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 275. 



