296 S Hy sade ,  Clats ai 
The Englifh anchovy (according to Mr. Ray) is 
a palm in length, and thicker than a thumb: the. 
body more flender, but lefs compreffed than that 
or the herring, has no a and is pellucid, 
except where the back bone. runs. 
Ir is ,almoft, of the, color of a- dprag: ,ihe 
nofe is fharp: the upper mandible longer than the ° 
lower: the mouth very large for the fize of the 
fifh: the eyes large. 
y: The S, MEDD Ae os 
Ogicoa * Arif. Hift. an. lib. Shad, or Mother of Herrings. 
ix. ¢ 37- Strabo lib. xv. Wil. Icth. 227. Rati fyn. pifcs 
486. xvii. 566. Arheneus. 105. 
jib. iv. 131. vii. 328. Op- Clupea apice maxilla fuperiore 
pian Halieut. 1. 244. bifido, maculis nigris utrin- 
Alaufa? Au/onii Mofella. 128. que. Arted. fynon. 15. 
Laccia, chiepa. Salvian. 104. Clupea alofa. Cl. lateribus ni- 
L’Alofe. Belon. 307. gro maculatis, roftro bifido. 
Thrifla. Ronde’, 220. Ge/ner Lin. Pht. 523. Gronov. Zooph. 
ife. 20. No. 347. 
Bayeke, Meyfifch. Schonevelde. 
13. 
EITHER A4riftotle, Atheneus, nor Oppian, 
have defcribed their @gicca with fuch preci- 
fion, as to induce us to tranflate it the Shad, without 
affixing to it our fceptic mark. Aufonius has been 
* Schonevelde fays, the f{cales of his Lycoffomos fall off very 
readily ; perhaps Mr. Ray might fee them after they had been 
carried fome diftance, when they had loft their fcales. 
equally 
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