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CLUPEID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGU. 



CLUPEIDJE. 



THE HERRING. 



Clupea harengus, LiNNa:us. Block, pt. i. pi. 29. 



WiLLUGHBv, p. 219, pi. p. 1, fig. 2. 

 Herring, Ray, Syn. p. 103. 

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

 Herring, 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 February. (P. 447.) 



