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112 Pomolobus mediocris (Mitcliill) 

 Hiokary Shad; Fall Herring; Shad Herring 



Inpea meddocris Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 450, 1815. New 

 YoTli; JoKDAN & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 266, 1883; Mc- 

 Donald, Fisli & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 607, pis. 216 A, 216B, 1884; Bean, 

 19tli Rep. Comm. Fisli. N. Y. separate, 43, pi. XXV, fig. 34, 1890. 



lupea mattoicaca Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 451, 1815. 

 Long Island. 



lupea mrescens De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 252, pi. 13, fig. 37. 1842. 



losa mattoicaca De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 260, pi. 40, fig. 127, 1842. 



losa lineata Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 162, pi. XXVII, fig. 2, 1867. 



lupea mattowaca Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 438, 1868. 



omolohiis mediocris Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 425. 

 189'6, pi. LXXI, fig. io8, 1900; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. G. XVII, 91, 1898; 

 Bean, 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 96, 1900. 



Head comparatively long, its length being contained four 

 mes in, that of the body; the profile straight, and not very 

 eep, form more elliptic than in others, and less heavy forward; 

 wer jaw considerably projecting, upper jaw emarginate. The 

 spth of the body is contained three and three eighths times in 

 le length. Opercles rather less emarginate below and behind 

 lan in P. pseudoharengus. Fins low; dorsal fin 

 iserted nearer snout than base of caudal. Bluish silvery; 

 des with rather faint longitudinal stripes. Peritoneum pale. 

 L'ugth 24 inches. Cape Cod to Florida; rather common; not 

 ighly valued as a food fish; not ascending streams to spawn. 

 . 15; A. 21. Lateral line 50; abdominal scutes 20+16. 



This species is referred to by Dr Mitchill as the Staten Island 

 erring, Clupea mediocris, which he says grows very 

 rge for a herring, being frequently 18 inches long and almost 

 5 big as a small shad. It has " six or eight brown spots, longi- 

 idinally, below the lateral line, as reported by an inhabitant 

 ' that part of the bay of New York which borders on Stateu 

 ;land." Mitchill, also, has the same species under the name of 

 ong Island herring, Clupea mattowaca. This, he says, 



also called the autumnal or fall herring, as well as shad 

 irring and fall shad. Mitchill recognized it as probably the 

 ill-grown fish of the C. m e d i o c r i s . He was not able to 

 stinguish it from tbat species, The length of the greenbdQk, 



