Class IV. WHITE BAIT HERRING. 465 



LePretre ou spret de Calais. Blanche, ib. vol. ii. sect. 3. 6. White 



Duhamel Tr. des Pesckes, p. 478. tab. \T.fig.6.? Bait. 



vol. iii. sect. 4. p. 4g. tab. Pennant's Journey to Dover, 



8. Jig. 7.? i. 23. Br. Zool. iii. 371. 



Le Franc-Blaquet ou Franche (Article Bleak.) 



[MR. PENNANT was either deceived in the 

 specimens sent him as the White Bait, or the 

 branchiostegous rays were injured, since he 

 counted only three instead of eight of these rays 

 which number they certainly possess. He thus 

 speaks of them. Ed. 



During the month of July there appear in 

 the Thames, near Blackmail and Greenzvich, 

 innumerable multitudes of small fish, which are 

 known to the Londoners by the name of White 

 Bait. They are esteemed very delicious when 

 fried with fine flour, and occasion, during the 

 season, a vast resort of the lower order of epi- 

 cures to the taverns contiguous to the places 

 they are taken at. 



Its usual length is two inches; the under Descrjp* 

 jaw is the longest; the irides are silvery, the 

 pupil black ; the dorsal fin is placed nearer to 

 the head than to the tail, and consists of about 

 fourteen rays ; the side line is straight ; the tail 

 forked, the tips black; the head, sides, and 

 belly, are silvery ; the back tinged with green. 



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TION. 



