PLATE LV1I. 
Clupea maxilla superiore in apice crenata. Bloch. Fisch. Deutschl. 
1. p. 209. n. 3. t. 30./. 1. 
Harengus dorso et apicis vertice ex albo flavescentibus, &c. Klein. 
miss. pise. 5. p. 72. t. 19./. 4. 
Thrissa. Aldrov. pise. p. 500. 
Laccia, Alosa. Salvian aq. p. -103, 104. 
Clupea, Shad. Will. Ichth. p. 227. t. p. 3./. 1 . — Raj. pise, 
p. 105. tt. 6. 
Shad. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 296. n. 5. 
Alose, in France. Laccia, Italy. Saccolos, Spain. Alse, Else, 
May-fish, and Gold-fish, Germany. Elft, Hol- 
land. Brisling, Sildinger, Sardeller, Denmark. 
Shelesniza, Beschenaja ryba, Russia. Sardellae- 
baliik, Turkey. S aghboga, Arabia,'. 
The colours of this common fish when living, are remarkable for 
their peculiar beauty. Its back is of a dulky blue, .changeable to 
green and yellow ; the sides silvery, and elegantly glossed with 
various hues ; the belly white; or faintly tinged with yellow. 
Commonly the whole fish when first taken from the water, glows 
with a pale but a lovely golden yellow, with the exception of the 
front of the head, which is transparent ; and the spots, which on 
close inspection are black, appear at that time of a purplish hue. 
The Linnaean specific character of this fish, is principally taken from 
those spots, which are disposed in a longitudinal series along the 
pidcs. Those spots vary much in their strength of colour in different 
