266  Storer's Observations on the Fishes of Nova Scotia 
appear on the coast about the middle of July, and take their 
departure in the early part of August. 
18. CLUPEA ELONGATA Lesueur. 
It seems somewhat surprising that the summer retreats of 
this fish have not hitherto been known to the naturalist, when 
we consider that cargoes upon cargoes of them are annually 
shipped from Labrador to the British Provinces, where they 
form so important an article of food. They have, thus far, 
been mentioned as found from New York to Massachusetts, 
and no farther. 
In a Report to the Colonial Government on the Fisheries 
of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, made in March, 1849, and again 
in 1850, the Commissioner, Mr. Perley, confounds them with 
the European species, harengus, from which however they 
greatly differ. 
We found them sparingly at Red Bay early in August, and 
a few days after in great abundance at Bras d'Or, farther to 
the westward, to which place vessels annually resort from 
Nova Scotia and the Magdalen Islands for the purpose of 
seining them. Arriving, as the herrings do, just after the 
Capelins retire, they form for the time the chief food of the 
Cod. ‘The waste during the seining season is enormous, 
many more being taken than can possibly be cured, so that 
hundreds of barrels are left to rot upon the beach; and so 
fat are they that, for miles around, the water is completely 
covered by a thick oily scum, arising from the decaying fish. 
Much good oil is obtained from their entrails by exposing 
them to the sun in open casks. 
19. ALosa cyanonoron Storer. 
"This fish has hitherto been noticed only at Provincetown, 
on Cape Cod. A single specimen was taken from a gill net 
in Red Bay, Labrador. T à 
