254 NEW-YORK FAUNA. 
This appears in some years in incredible numbers on the shores of Massachusetts, according 
to Dr. Storer, and will probably be found on our own coast. 
Dr. Mitchill has indicated, rather than described, two small herrings from the waters of 
New-York, which may be the young of other species. The notes which he has left do not 
enable me to place them with sufficient accuracy, but I leave them provisionally here. I have 
not met with them. 
THE SATIN-STRIPED HERRING. 
CLUPEA VITTATA, 
Satin-striped Herring, C. vittata. Mrrcutut, Lit. and Phil. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 456. 
Characteristics. With large projecting upper jaws, small lower jaws, silver-striped sides, and 
forked tail. Length 34 inches. 
Description. “ Length about three and a half inches ; depth rather more than half an inch. 
Inhabits the salt water, and resembles an atherine. ‘The upper jaw is much more conside- 
rable in size than the lower, and terminates in a distinct nose or snout. Beneath it, the lower 
mandible is received, and shuts closely. The mouth has no proper teeth, but both the jaws 
have very minute and exact serrated edges. The throat, on examination, is found to be sur- 
rounded with a row of bristles, long and diposed funnel-wise, and investing the sides of the 
tongue. One dorsal fin near the middle of the back. 'The vent is rather nearer the tail than 
to the head. The ventrals small, and six-rayed. Eyes large and yellowish. Gill-covers 
silvery white. Belly carinated, and moderately serrated. Branchial membrane, eleven or 
twelve rays. Anal fin about twenty-one.” 
This can scarcely be identical with the C. argentina of Swainson, from Brazil; but the 
characters are too meagre to enable us to make a comparison. 
THE BLUE HERRING. 
CLUPEA CC@RULEA, 
C. cerulea, The Blue Herring. Murcuivt, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 457: 
Characteristics. “With bluish complexion, large head, forked tail, and small pectoral and 
abdominal fins.” Length three inches. 
Description. “ Length three inches ; depth nearly one, being a deep fish in proportion to 
his length. The scales are large for a fish of his size, and are readily deciduous. The skin 
is free from spots or stripes, and is of a bluish color. This is less considerable on the belly 
than on the back. The eyes and head are large. The jaws about even. Tail deeply forked. 
Belly sharply and delicately serrated. Pectoral fins small; ventral smaller. Body in some 
