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Pilchards arc the familiar Sardines. In America ]*ilchards of any age arc called 

 Sardines. These and allied fishes dirf"r from the ''Ronnd Herrings" in having 

 the belly sharp and rongh to the tonch. 



DOROSOMA Rafinesque, 1S20 (hcternra). 



DOROSOMA COME Richardson (Hony Bream, Tukari). 



Chatoessus conic Kicli.. Zool. Ei-eh. iK: Terr., ii, 184.'), |). (i2, j)l. xxxviii, fig. 7-10. 

 Chatoessus ereh; Oiintli.. C'at. Fish. Brit. Mns., vii, l,S(i,S, p. 407; Cast., P.Z.S., 



Vict., i, 1872, p. 184. 

 Chatoessus richardsoiv Cast., up. cit., ii, 187:5, p. 144; Ogil., Edib. Fish. N.S.W.. 



1893, p. 178. 

 Chatoessus horni Zietz, Rep. Horn Exped., ii, 1896, p. 180, pi. xvi, fig. (i. 

 Dorosoma uiixns Stead, Edib. Fish. N.S.W., 1908, p. 24. i)l. iii. 



Fig. -"ii. Dornsnma come. 



Too bony to be a]")pi'e;'iated as food, but ihe objectionable feature may be 

 largely overcome bv sonsinu' the fish in vinciiar. 



STOLEPHORUS Lacep^de, 1803 (japonicns). 

 STOLEPHORUS ROBUSTUS Og-ilby (Blue Si)rat). 

 Spraff-noldcs rohitstits Ogil.. P.L.S.. N.S.W., xxii, 1898, p. 64. 



