HERRINGS. 161 
but uniform in colour; posterior extremity of 
maxillary bone extending to a vertical line drawn 
through the middle of the orbit; eye, subcircular, 
large; colour, copper-red in the freshly-caught 
fish; anterior margin of the dorsal fin, nearer the 
extremity of the snout than the insertion of the 
caudal. The average length is somewhat about 
ten inches. Indian name along the coast, Stole ; 
Skadget Indian, Lo-see. 
There are three distinct herring arrivals, one 
beginning in February and March; these fish 
are small, and somewhat lean. About the be- 
ginning of April the run commences; these 
are finer, full of spawn, and in high condition: 
in June and July, and extending through the 
summer, small shoals occasionally make their 
appearance, but never as fine as the April fish. 
Toward the middle of April herring legions 
commence arriving from seaward in real earnest ; 
brigade follows brigade in rapid succession, until 
every bay, harbour, inlet, estuary, and lagoon 1s 
literally alive with them. Close in their rear, 
as camp-followers hang on the skirts of an army, 
come shoals of dogfish, salmon, and fish-eating 
sea-birds. 
I have often seen a shoal of herrings, when 
hotly pursued by the dogfish, dash into a little 
