. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. Tailor Herring ; Hickory Shad projecting, its tip entering tiie profile; upper jaw emarginate; premaxillary, and often tip of lower jaw, with persistent teeth of moderate size; maxillary large, reaching posterior part of eye; eye large, well covered by adipose eyelid; caudal peduncle slender, the caudal fin well forked; gillrakers comparatively few, short, stout, and coarse, about 23 bel
. American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . Fishes; Fishes; Fishes. Tailor Herring ; Hickory Shad projecting, its tip entering tiie profile; upper jaw emarginate; premaxillary, and often tip of lower jaw, with persistent teeth of moderate size; maxillary large, reaching posterior part of eye; eye large, well covered by adipose eyelid; caudal peduncle slender, the caudal fin well forked; gillrakers comparatively few, short, stout, and coarse, about 23 below angle of arch; opercle with radiating and branching strife. Colour, brilliant blue above, sides silvery with golden reflections; no dark spots behind opercle; peritoneum Tailor Herring; Hickory Sinaci Pomolobus nicdiocris (Mitchill) This species of herring, which is also known as fall her- ring and mattowacca, is fairly common from Cape Cod to Flor- ida. The name Mattowacca is said to be derived from the Indian name for Long Island, which was Mattowaka or Mattowax. In the Potomac River it is called "tailor shad" or "fresh-water tailor," in contradistinction to the bluefish which is called "salt- water ; The centre of abundance of the tailor seems to be in the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay where it usually makes its appearance in the rivers in the spring before the shad. Northward it does not usually enter streams, but southward it does so regularly. It reaches a maximum length of 24 inches, though examples of more than 3 pounds' weight are not often seen. This species is caught in great quantities in pound-nets and is hawked about the streets of Washington and other cities in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Evermann,
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