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the herring famirt. 
The character is that the unner iaw 
long, wide, slightly bent mystache, or Le maxiuTrvT ''t- n 
bod/, .iu “ 
the tail forked. ^ 7 • single dorsal fin; 
<!*» in the foj'’/a d“ -W 
especially in the saw-like kerTthe'ldt 
the characteristic pharyngeal bones in tli f ‘^^‘^^7 also 
»e lost; ,„d ,bo f„, the 
or they ™ ,o fein.ly „„kod ,, ^ ‘V’ 
remarkable shape of the air-bladHnr • i ‘^“Oeined. Ihe 
long ,„d n„.„/ .„be. bo.r “t/ f” » 
a thread, the hindmost of which in The K ™ 
the vent. Of all fishes Herring extends to 
numerous bones- so that al and 
the nbs reach to’ the forkedlLet by T£ S\f 
xT"ouMefo: otwhCwr! 
the upright processes of the vertebra bTth° h^T"" 
the actions of the muscles of the blck^ ar^^ f 
energetic. They are abdominal fishes lendered more 
