PLATE LVIL 
rie t are paralyse?, and they submit with scarce a struggle to the 
destiny that awaits them. The idea of thus enticing the Shad to 
die snare, by the power of music, seems to be derived from days of 
c lassical antiquity. /Elian speaks of this fish being attracted by the 
s °und of castagnettes made with shells, and rang in unison with the 
songs of fishermen. 
The Shad feeds on worms, insects, and the smaller kinds of fish. 
In its turn it is the prey of larger fishes. The Perch is among the 
number of its greatest enemies. 
In the dorsal fin of the specimen represented, are twenty rays : 
Pectoral fin nineteen rays: ventral fin twelve rays: anal fin twenty 
0n e ; and tail twenty-six. 
