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TEAVELS m CENTEAL AFEICA. 
travellers to these fishes^ specimens of which are much wanted in 
collections. 
CL UPEIDjE. 
Clupea. (Herrings.) 
Body compressed, with the abdominal serrature extending for- 
wards into the thoracic region. No barbels. Scales of moderate 
or large size. Upper jaw not projecting beyond the lower. Cleft 
of the mouth of moderate width ; teeth, if present, rudimentary 
and deciduous. Anal fin of moderate extent, with less than thirty 
rays ; dorsal fin short, without spine, opposite to the ventrals. 
Caudal forked. No adipose fin. 
Clupea finta, Cuv. (The Shad; Sabuga.) 
D. 18—20. A. 20—24. V. 9. L. lat. 60—75. 
The height of the body is more than the length of the head, 
which is one -fourth or two -ninths of the total (without caudal) . 
Lower jaw but slightly prominent; maxillary extending to, or 
nearly to, the vertical from the hind margin of the orbit. No 
teeth on the palate or the tongue. Gill-rakers stout, osseous, from 
twenty-one to twenty-seven on the horizontal part of the outer 
