CLUPID^. 



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white. The lower jaw is much longer than the other, with five or six 

 small teeth extending in a line backwards on each side from the an- 

 terior point ; four rows of small teeth on the central upper surface of 

 the tongue, and a few small teeth on the central surface of the upper 

 jaw. Branchiostegous rays are eight in number, pectoral sixteen, 

 ventral eight, anal sixteen, dorsal nineteen, and caudal eighteen. 

 The scales are large. The caudal fin deeply forked. 



Several other species of Herring are common to the waters of the 

 United States, but this is the only one which is taken with the fly, or 

 can be accounted as game to the sportsman. 



