PLATE XCVIII. 
the name of White-bait, it would tend to elucidate a point hitherto 
considered doubtful by our Ichthyologists, we were afterwards per- 
suaded to insert it. Any further description of the fish we presume to 
be unnecessary : the figures are correct, and those will sufficienty 
testify, on comparison with the common Shad, that the White-bait 
nothing more than the young of that individual species. 
