(iKNKIfAL DESCKllTloN. 



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Mtrlan;fM Amcniitniiji. 



The American Whiilng. 



This is, comparatively speaking, a rare and little-known lisji, 

 that which is commonly called llli'ttin;/ hein;.; in rc.ility :i Ilukc 

 [Mfrhiciuit). It ranj^es oidy from Massachusetts northward. 



It is easily distinguished hy its long, tapering, cylindrical 

 Ijudy, and its high, triangular, wing-like dorsals. 



Its colour is, above the lateral line, a bright nacrous bluish 

 grey, and below a silvery white, with tins nearly of the sanu' 

 colour. 



The head of the ^^hiting is acutely pruli>n:_'((l ; th(* eyes 

 large and [)nimincnt ; the gill-cu\»'rs rounded ; tlic teeth Nliarp 

 and small. 



The three dorsals have respectively tliirtccti, twenty, aiul 

 twenty rays; the pectorals, nineteen; the vcntrals, .six; the 

 anals, respectivj-Iy twenty-four and twenty-one ; and the caudal, 

 thirty-two. 



The \Vliiting is a delicate fish. It is taken in the sanu- 

 mnnner and in the .«uimc waters with the Cod and IladdcMk 



