TLYING. P01,YNEMEo HERRING, 



141 



Br. Zool. iii. p. ^^I- Genus XXXVIIL XLII. FLYING= 



Catejby, ii. 8.— Exocoetus volitans, Lin. 520.— Flying Fifli, Br, Zool.m, N" 159^ 



O M M O N in mofl feaso ^iace; 



Head compreflfed in all parts. 



Scaly : nofe very blunt and prominent. 



Certain pliform appendages to the pedtoral fins. Linn/Eus. 



XLIII. POLY» 



NEME. 



' With feven appendages : tail broad, whole, and pointed, 

 inhabits the coafts ef iVbr//?' ^»2mf^,, 



187. Virginia. 

 Place. 



5r. ZqoL iii. p. :i,2>'^. Genus XXXIX-. 



Br. Zool, iii. N° 160? 



E R R I N G S leave the fait water in March, and run up the 

 rivers and fhallow ftreams of Carolina, in fuch numbers, that the 

 inhabitants fling them afhore by fhovels full. PafTengers trample 

 them under feet in fording the rivers. They are not fo large as the 

 Englip, but exceed them in flavor when pickled : they turn red on 

 being faked. Quere, if of the fame fpecies ? 



A wonderful inundation of fifh happens annually within the northern 

 cape of Cheqfapeak Bay, where incredible ntimbers of various kinds 

 are flung on Ihore, which is covered with them three miles in length, and 

 to a great depth. In the general fpawning feafon they are purfued by 

 the multitudes of voracious fillies, and thus are drove into deftru£lion. 



X 2 They 



XLIV. HERRING- 

 i68. CoMMOiir. 



Plac«. 



