PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
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REMARKS. 
This fish when fresh, if not superior, is at least in quality equal to the best Scotch herring: though in size 
much smaller. They begin to make their appearance at Vizagapatam in March, and are abundant through the 
summer months. The natives cure them in the manner of Sardinias: or sometimes in red earth mixed with salt. 
The name given to my drawing by the fishermen at Madras was Kanwali. Bloch received a specimen 
from Tranquebar under the name Poykia, or Nanalai. His figure of the Clupea Sinensis, however differs from 
the present figure, as well as from that in Willoughby’s Appendix. 
No. CLXXXVII. 
Clupea corpore lanceolate ; linea laterali recta, media, argentea; rostro j)r eminent e, obtuso. 
The Clupea with a lanceolate body, the lateral line straight, middle and silvery. A pro¬ 
minent, blunt, nose. 
Clupea Atherinoides7 Linn. S. J\ r . p. 5 2 3. 
Called by the Natives Nattoo or Nettooli. 
B. xii. D. 15. P. 16. V. 7. A. 20. C. 22. 
The body lanceolate, compressed, squamous, pellucid ; scales large, smooth, tenacious. 
The head compressed, without scales, the front depressed, rostrum projecting, obtuse. The mouth low, less 
oblique than in the last, large, no lips; jaws extractile, the under shortest, the edge of the upper serrated: 
both filled with numerous, close, acerose, teeth; tongue very short, rough; the palate also denticulate. Eyes 
middle, round, large; nostrils double, close to the rostrum. The branchial opercula bi-laminate, rounded; the 
membrane covered; the aperture arched. 
The trunk. The back less arched than in the last, but a little convex, the sides compressed; the abdomen 
carinate, straight, and serrated. Branchiae as in the last; the lateral line consists of a broad silver fillet, middle, 
straight. The anus nearly middle. 
The fins. The dorsal a little behind the middle, of a shape slightly falcate; pectoral unusually low, 
acuminate above, short; the ventral shorter by half, but of the same shape, has seven rays: the anal rises 
nearly opposite to where the dorsal ends, and is similar to it in shape, but lower; the caudal fin bifid. 
The colour universally a yellowish-white. 
Length , five inches. 
REMARKS. 
This fish rarely exceeds five inches in length. When about three inches they often, with the Sorings 
(No. CXIII.) of the same or smaller size, are brought to table on shewers dressed in the manner of Inkle- 
fish. The fry of other fish sometimes intermixed with them are greatly inferior to the Nattoo, which rivals the 
English white-bait. 
