Class IV. 



HERRING. 



3SS 



Eight branchioftegOLis rays. 



The belly extremely fliarp, and often ferrated. 



XXXIX. 

 HERRING, 



Aringha ex cimhricis llttori- 



hviS.'jG--oius, 143. 

 Hareng, efpece de Chalcis. 



Belon, 169. 

 Harengus. Rondel, 222. Gef~ 



ner fife. 41 0. 

 Herlngk. Schone<velde, 37. 

 Herring. Wil. Icth. 219. 



Rail fyn. pifc. 103. 

 Clupea maxilla inferiore lon- 

 gioje maculis carens. Arted. 



fynon, 14. «. ^. 

 Clupea Harengus. CI. im- 

 maculata, maxilla inferiore 



longiore. Lin, fyft. 522. 



GrofiQ'v. Zooph. No. 348'. 

 Sill. Faua. Suec, No. 357. a. 



Stromming. Faun, ■ Suec. 



No. 357. |3. ' 



Stromling *. Wulj\ Borujs. 



No. 50. 



160. Bri- 



TISK 



^T^HE herring was unknown to the antients, Name, 





notwithfiandino; the words %aA;<ij and ^aw?. 



are by tranflators rendered Halecf^ the charaders 

 given of thofe filh are comnnon to fuch numbers 

 of different fpecies, as render it impoflible to fay 

 which they intended. 



Herrings are found from the higheft northern 

 latitudes yet known, as low as the northern coafts 

 of France ^ and excepting one inftance brought by 



Pl'aqe, 



• The herring of the Baltic, in all refpedts is like ours, but 

 fmaller, 



f Whtth word, in fpite of all lexicographers , never fignified 

 any thing but the ^«r*t'r or pickle* Vide p, zzi. 



Dod, 



