684 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



BTRUMBUS, Bleek. 

 E. teres, De K. (Alosa.) Round Herring. Slender Herring. 



Body fusiform; snout pointed; scales cycloid, deciduous; 

 branchiostegals fifteen ; anal small ; dorsal in front of ventrals ; 

 silvery; olivaceous above ; eye large; fins small. Dorsal rays, 13. 



" This is a rare species of the herring tribe, that occasionally 

 is met with along our coast. The writer found a single specimen 

 at Barnegat ' in the edge of the surf,' as Prof. Baird relates he 

 met with ' a number of specimens ' at Beesley's Point. Occa- 

 sionally it is seen in Delaware Bay." — [C. C. A.] 



CLUPBA, L. 

 (Alosa. Fomolobus, &c.) 

 O. harengus, L. (elongata, he S.) Common Herring. "Whitebait" 

 (young). 

 Bluish ; silvery below ; body compressed ; scales loose ; lower 

 jaw projecting ; dorsals in front of middle of ventrals ; abdomen 

 serrated in front of and behind ventrals. Dorsal rays, 18. 

 Vomer has an ovate patch of teeth ; spawns in sea. 



" The herring is very abundant at times, and then will be 

 almost unknown to the coast." 



O. mediocris, Mitch, [inattowaeca, lineata.) Hickory Shad. Tailor 

 Herring. Fall Herring. 



Bluish silvery ; sides with faint stripes ; head elongate ; body 

 more elliptic, less heavy forward ; lower jaw projecting ; upper 

 emarginate. Dorsal rays, 15; anal rays, 21; a few teeth on 

 tongue ; ventral scutes prominent, 20 + 16. Newfoundland to 

 Florida; of little value as a food fish. 



" This is not unknown to our coast, but is only met with in 

 small numbers, during the autumn months." 



C. vernalis, Mitch, {pseudoharengus, Wils., tyranrms, Stor.) Alewife. 

 Branch Herring. Gaspereau. 



Blue above ; sides silvery, with stripes ; a black spot behind 

 opercle ; body deep and heavy forward ; head short ; lower jaw 

 projects a little, upper emarginate ; eye large ; lower lobe of tail 

 fin the longer; dorsal high, 16 rays; anal, 19 rays; ventral 

 scutes, 21 + 14. Enters streams to spawn. 



" This herring precedes the shad in the Delaware, and is after- 



