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CLUPElDvE. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGU. 



CLUPEIDJE. 



THE HERRING. 



Clupea harengus, LINN^US. BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 29. 



WILI.UOHBY, p. 219, pi. P. 1, fig. 2. 

 Herring, RAY, Syn. p. 103. 

 CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 317. 

 HerriTig, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 444, pi. 79. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 182, sp. 51. 



ANDERSON and Pennant were certainly mistaken in sup- 

 posing that the great winter rendezvous of the Herring is 

 within the Arctic Circle : " there they continue," says Pen- 

 nant, " for many months, in order to recruit themselves after 

 the fatigue of spawning ; the sea within that space swarming 

 with insect food, in a degree far greater than in our warmer 

 latitudes." 



" This mighty army begins to put itself in motion in the 

 spring. We distinguish this vast body by that name; for the 

 word Herring is derived from the German Heer an army, to 

 express their numbers. They begin to appear off the Shet- 

 land Islands in April and May.* This is the first check this 



* In another part of his account, Pennant says the Herrings continue on the 

 Welsh coast till Fehruary. (P. 447.) 



