Class IV. 



S M E L T. 



the back and fides of a fine filvery grey, but when 

 the fifli is juft taken, varied flightly with blue and 

 cold: the fide-line is ftrait. 



The fcales large, and the lower edges duiky, 

 forming ftrait rows from head to tail. 



The lirfl dorfal fin has twenty-one rays; the 

 three or four firft are the fhorteft, the others almoft 

 of equal lengths ; this fin is fpotted, all the others 

 *re plain. 



The tail is much forked. 



3^3 



Epelan de -mer. Belon^ 2?>z. 

 Eperlanus. Rondel, f^u-viat, 



196. Gefner pifc. 362. 

 Spirincus et Stincus. Gefner 



Faralip, 29. 

 A Spyrling a Sprote. Turner 



epijt. ad. Gefn. 

 Stindt, et Stincknfch. Scho- 



ne'velde, 70. 



A Smelt. Wil. Icth. 202. 



Rail Jyn, pifc. 66. 

 Ofmerus radiis pinnae ani lep- 



tendecirn. Arted. fynon. 21. 

 Salmo eperlanus. S. capite 



diaphano, radiis pinns ani 



fep tendecirn. Lin. fyfl. 511. 



Grcno^v. Zooph. No. 

 Nors, Slom. Fcuin. fuec. No. 



350- 



151. SmelT| 



THE fmelt inhabits the feas of the northern 

 parts of Europe, and we believe never is 

 found as far fouth as the Mediterranean : the Seine 

 is one of the French rivers which receive it, but 

 whether it is found fouth of that, we have not at 

 prefent authority to fay. If we can depend on the 

 obfervations of navigators, who generally have too- 

 much to think of to attend to the rninutia of na^ 

 tural hiftory, thefe fiih are taken in the ftraits of 



Magellanr^ 



