l68 ANCHOVY. 



Herring, and is, in general, furnished with about 

 sixteen or seventeen rays*. 



The Sprat, says Mr. Pennant, appears in the 

 river Thames, below bridge, in the beginning of 

 November, and leaves it in March, and during its 

 appearance is a great relief to the poor of the 

 Capital. At Gravcsend and Yarmouth Sprats are 

 cured like red Herrings, and are sometimes pickled, 

 being in that state little inferior to the Anchovy, 

 though the bones will noi: dissolve as in thai fish. 

 Like the Herring and the- Pilchard the Sprat often 

 visits the coasts of the Mediterranean and Northern 

 seas in prodigious shoals, and usually spawns in 

 autumn in the deeper parts of the coast. 



ANCHOVY. 



Clupea Encrasicolus. ('. argcntea, dorso subfusco, maxilla 



superiore /ongiore. 

 Silvery Herring, with dusky back, and upper jaw longer than 



the lower. 

 Clupea Encrasicolus. C. maxilla superiore longiorc. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. p. />23 . 

 Clupea maxilla superiore prominente, rictu amplo. Block, t. 



30. /. 2. 

 Anchovy. Will, ichth. 225. Pcnn. Brit. Zool. 



THE general length of this species is from three 

 to four inches, but it is sometimes seen of the length 

 of six inches and upwards : it is of a somewhat 



* There appears to be some mistake on this subject in the 

 Systema Naturae ; the specific character announcing thirteen 

 rays, while in the note annexed the number is seventeen. 



