87 



teeth. Tongue with two or three long teeth on each side, 

 with a larger one in front near the tip ; palatines with a row 

 of smaller teeth. The first dorsal fin, commencing at a point 

 midway between the base of the caudal fin and the tip of the 

 snout, has the first two rajs simple, the first very short, the 

 second longest, thence very gradually diminishing to the last. 

 The long and narrow adipose dorsal fin is over the posterior 

 third of the anal. Pectorals pointed and fan-shaped ; ventrals 

 broad, arising under the first ray of dorsal fin ; anal long, 

 with anterior ray longest ; caudal forked. Pale olive-green 

 above the lateral line. Opercles and sides silvery. Upper 

 part of the opercles, near the nape, dark green. Length 5-8 

 inches. 



Fin-rays :— D. 11.0 ; P. M ; V. 9 ; A. 15 ; C. 19^ 



Salmo eperlanus, Mitch. Lit. & Phil. Trans. N. York, I, p. 



435. 



Osmerus viridescens, Lesueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



I, p. 230 ; DeKay, N. York Fauna. Fish., p. 243, pi. 39, fig. 



124 ; Cuv. & Yal. XXI, p. 388. 



This fish, well known as Smelt from its peculiar smell, 

 resembling that of cucumbers, belongs to the northern part 

 of the Atlantic ; specimens have been taken occasionally in 

 the inlet between Assateague and Wallops Islands. 



AoAD. Coll. 



Ln--CLUPEIDiE. 



CLUPEA. Linn. 

 C. harengus, 



English Herring. Herring of Commerce. 

 Common Herring. 



Body lengthened, fusiform, compressed. The height of 

 the body nearly equal to the length of the head. Depth at 

 the dorsal fin to the length as one to fourteen. Back 



