144 II. ANIMALS— Pisces. 



*Father lasher, Cottiis Scorpio, Pressed for oil. 



*TuNNy, Scomber thynnus* Preserved whole in oil ; imported 

 from Italy. 



* Stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. This extremely small 

 fish is in some places so plentiful as to be pressed for its oil, the 

 remainder used as manure. 



LuNULATED GILT HEAD, Sparus aurattt. Flesh salted. — 

 Spa?'us paytirus. Flesh poisonous, used for suicide. — Pcrca .... 

 Skins prepared as isinglass. 



* Salmon, Salmo solar. Flesh preserved in half lengths, 

 pickled salmon, with vinegar, small beer, and water, three fish in a 

 kit ; or split, salted, and smoked, kipjyer salmon ; or whole in oil. 



Char, Salmo alpinus. Flesh preserved by potting, potted char. 



*Mullet, Mugil cephalus. Spawn salted, dried, and dipped 

 in melted wax, botargo, used as sauce. 



*Herring, Clupea harengus. Belly fin six rayed ; flesh 

 pickled in brine, and repacked with salt, white herrings, pickled 

 herrings. — Scotch herrings, Dutch herrings, caught off the Scottish 

 coast after the 24th June, large, fat, full bellied, rich flavoured, 

 but do not keep in hot climates. — Yarmouth pickled herrings. 

 Caught off Yarmouth in September and October, lank, mostly 

 without roe, keep well, exported to the West Indies for the ne- 

 groes. — Red herrings. The Scotch herrings salted and smoked 

 with dry oak-wood smoke ; also pressed for oil. 



Anchovies, Clupea cncrasicolus. Flesh pickled with vinegar ; 

 used as sauce, the bones dissolve during the boiling ; imported 

 from Italy and France. Gorgona anchovies, 



*Sprats, Clupea sprattus. Belly fin nine rayed ; flesh dry ; 

 whole fish, not gutted, salted in brine ; headed, gutted and 

 pickled in vinegar, used for anchovies. 



*PiLCHARi>, Clupanodun pilchardus. No teeth in the jaws ; 

 flesh preserved with salt, also pressed for oil : young fry used for 

 anchovies. 



*Barbel, Cyprinus harbus. Spawn vsometimes violently ca- 

 thartic. — *Dace, C. leuciscus ; — "^ Roach, C. rutilus ; — Bleak, Bley, 

 C. alburnus. Scales used to make oriental essence. 



Isinglass, Tish glue, Ichthyocolla. Principally prepared from 

 the sounds or air bladders of the beluga, by scraping, steeping in 

 lime water, to remove the grease, washing, drying, twisting into 

 staples, bending into a book, or rolling into a ball ; used to fine 

 wine and beer, and to make jelly for food ; gr. vj grow solid with 

 half a pint of water ; imported from Russia, short staple, (S. S.) 



Caviare. The spawn of sturgeon and some other fishes. 



