458 Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
8. Clupea harengus (7), 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. Seales large, thin, orbicular. 
D.19. P.16. V.8. A.16. C.(?). Length, 15 inches. 
Arctic Seas, RicHarpson. 
Called ‘‘ Kapiselik,’’? by the Greenlanders. 
Clupea harengus, L1n., Syst. Nat., p. 522 
sf ff Fasricivs, Fauna Groenlandica, p, 182, 
cs Us Common Herring, Saaw’s Gen. Zool., v. p. 156, fig. 
ae ef Brocu, 1. p. 49, pl. 29, fig. 1. 
ss Us Ricu., Franklin’s Journal, p. 716. 
x = Fremine’s Brit. An., p. 182. 
Be ee Pennant’s Arct, Zoél., vit. p. 335, pl. 29. 
sf fs Ricu., Fauna Boreal. Americ., m1. p. 229. 
m a (@), Dexay’s Report, p. 255. 
It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Arctic species is the harengus, and I introduce it, 
as 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, WrLson. 
Body oblong, compressed. Bluish upon the top of the head and on the back ; the upper 
portion of the sides, including the opercula, cupreous; beneath silvery. At ihe 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. 203. Length, 20 inches, Weight, 2 to6 pounds. 
Maine, Linstry. New Hampshire, Bexxnar. Massachusetts, Srorer. Connecti- 
cut, Linsney. New York, Mrrcuitt, Dexay. South Carolina, Virginia, Dexay. 
clipes sapidissima, Witson, Rees’s Encycloped. (American edit.) ; catalogued, but not described. 
Cs Rar., Amer. Month. Mag., 1. p. 205. 
Soir alosa, Shad, ince s Hist. of New Hampshire, wr. p. 130. 
Ws © Mireur, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. p. 449. 
Clupea indigena, Sprat Herring, Mircuixt, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. p. 454 (young). 
Alosa vulgaris, Common Shad, Storer’s Report, p. 116. 
Alosa prestabilis, American Shad, DeKay’s Report p. 255, pl. 15, fig. 41. 
Alosa sapidissima, Shad, Witson, Linstey’s Cat, of Fishes of Connecticut, Silliman’s Journal, xnv1. 
