3C2 WHITE. Class IV. 



The back was dulky -, the fides tinged with a 

 purplifa bloom, marked with deep purple fpots, 

 mixed with black, above and below the fide line 

 which was ftrait : the belly white. 



The firil dorfal fin was fpotted ; the fpurious fin 

 brown, tipped with red ^ the pefloral, ventral, and 

 anal fins, of a pale brown; the edges of the anal 

 fin white : the tail very little forked when extend- 

 ed. 



247. White. ^I^HIS fpecies migrates out of the fea into the 

 A river- Ejk in Cmnkriand from July to Sep- 

 tember^ and is called from its color the Whiting, 

 When dreffed, their flefh is red, and moft delicious 

 eating. They have, on their fird appearance from 

 the fait water, the lernaa falmonea^ or falmon loufe, 

 adhering to them. They have both melt and 

 fpawn ; but no fry has as yet been obferved. This 

 is the iifh called by the Scots^ Phinocs. 



They never exceed a foot in length. The up- 

 per jaw is a little longer than the lower: in the 

 firft are two rows of teeth ; in the lad, one : on 

 the tong-ue are fix teeth. 



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The back is flrait : the whole body of an ele- 

 gant form : the lateral line is ftrait ; color, be- 

 tween that and the top of the back, duiky and 

 filvery intermixed j beneath the line of an exqui- 



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