Class IV. ANCHOVY HERRING. 459 



EvK§ctv\o; ? Arist. Hist. an. Clupea maxilla superiore Ion- 4. Anchovy. 



Lib. vi. c. 15. giore. Arted. synon. 17. 



Evx§ aa-ixot-og ? Athencens, Clupea Encrasicolus. Lin. syst. 



Lib. vii. c. 285. 523 « Gm - Lin. 1405. 



L'Anchoy? Belon, 165. L'Anchois. B/ocA Ichth. i. 



Encrasicholus ? Rondel. 211. 170. tab. 30. f. 2. 



Gesner pise. 68. La Clupee anchois. DelaCe- 



Lycostomus, sehe mareneken ? P e ^ e Hist, des Poissons. v. 



ScJwnevelde, 46. ta&. 5. 455. 

 Anchovy. Wil. Ichth. 225. 



Raii syn. pise. 107. 



J_ HE true anchovies are taken in vast quanti- 

 ties in the Mediterranean, and are brought over 

 here pickled. The great fishery is at Gorgona, 

 a small isle west of Leghorn. 



Mr. Ray discovered this species in the estu- 

 ary of the Dee above a century ago.* Since 

 that time no notice has been taken of it, till a 

 few were taken near my house in 1769. 



The length of the largest of these was six Descrip- 

 inches and an half: the body slender, but 

 thicker in proportion than the herring ; the 

 eyes were large ; the irides white, with a cast 

 of yellow ; the under jaw much shorter than 

 the upper; the teeth small, a row in each jaw, 

 and another on the middle of the tongue ; the 



* Ray's Letters, 47. 



