HERRING. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Eight gill rays. 
Belly very sharp, and generally serrated. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Clupea Harengus. C. immaculata, maxilla inferiore longiore. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 1402. 
Without spots j lower jaw longer than the 
upper. 
Clupea maxilla inferiore longiore, pinna 
ani radiis septendecim. Bloch, pi. 29. f. 1 . 
Herring. . . . Will. Ichth. p. 21 Q. Penn. Brit. Zook 3. 
p. 335. no. 160. pi. 68. Shaw Gen 
Zool. 5. p. 158. pi. 119. 
Herrings are fish of passage, and are found in the 
greatest abundance in high northern latitudes. They 
seem to have their capital between the points of 
Scotland, Norway, and Denmark, from whence the 
Danish colonies take their progress every year ; and 
after having traversed the channel, and passed by 
Holland and Flanders, visit our coasts. They are 1 
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