460 



SHAD HERRING. 



Class IV. 



tongue doubly ciliated on both sides ; the dor- 

 sal fin consisted of twelve rays, was transparent, 

 and placed nearer the nose than the tail. The 

 scales were large and deciduous; the back green 

 and semipellucid; the sides and belly silvery and 

 opake ; the edge of the belly smooth ; the tail 

 forked. 



5. Shad. Qgicr<ra.} Anst. Hist. an. lib. 



ix. c. 37. Strabo lib. xv. 



48(1 xvii. 566. AthencBUs, 



lib. iv. 131. vii. 328. Op- 



pian Halieut. i. 244. 

 Alausa? Ausonii Mosella, 128. 

 Laccia, chiepa. Sa/vian, 104. 

 L'Alose. Belon, 307 . 

 Thrissa. Rondel. 220. Gesner 



pise. 20. 

 Bayeke, Meyfisch. Schone- 



velde, 13. 

 Shad, or Mother of Herrings. 



Jf'il Ichth. 227- Raii syn. 



pise. 105. 

 Clupea apice maxilla supe- 



riore bifido, maculis nigris 

 utrinque. Arted. synon. 15. 



Clupea Alosa. CI. lateribus 

 nigro maculatis, rostro bifi- 

 do. Lin. syst. 523. Gm. 

 Lin. 1404. Gronov. Zooph. 

 No. 347. 



L'Alose. Duhamel Tr. des 

 Pesches, ii. 315. sect. 3. 

 tab. l.fg.l. 



L'Alose. Block Ichth. i. 167. 

 tab. 30. f 1. 



La Clupee alose. De la Ce- 

 pede Hist, des Poissons. v. 

 447- 



IN EITHER Aristotle, Athenceus, or Oppian, 

 have described their q^c-o-x with such precision, 

 as to induce us to translate it the Shad, without 

 affixing to it our sceptic mark. Ausonius has 

 been equally negligenc in respect to his Alausa : 



