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PLATE XCVIII. 
CLUPEA ALOSA, jun. 
WHITE BAIT. 
i 
hite Bait. Appendix to the Bleak. Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. 3. 
p. 372. 
Whitebait. Var. of Cyprinus Alburnus, Bleak. Turt. 
Syst. Nat. v. 1 . p. 885. 
White Bait. Append. Carp. Shaw Gen. Zool. vol. s. p. i. 
p. 246. 
When the true character of the White Bait becomes more gene- 
rally understood, and the veracity of those remarks we shall offer in 
tlle sec l ue ' »s sufficiently confirmed by the observation of other natu- 
ralists, it will perhaps appear that it has remained with us to remove 
ffie mysterious veil that has hitherto enveloped the history of this little 
fish in obscurity. To what peculiar circumstances we are to attribute 
the errors that have prevailed among writers respecting this fish, we 
c annot easily imagine : unless, as we suspect, they never had an op- 
portunity of examining it; but that they have actually been deceived 
are perfectly satisfied. This assertion is not advanced on slight 
5u tmises, for some pains has been taken by us to investigate the 
history of this heretofore ambiguous fish : we have examined it re- 
peatedly, and have now before us a great variety of specimens eluci- 
