Year
Unknown
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Transcription
a
Menevitia peletieriana
(???)
Mouth Cooking Down &
In the Top of head
The scales have a shining area
Bottom has little or nothing in beginning
This a correct outline —
Next to the purple back from head
To tail gold color —
From a little below the center of body
Down to edge of belly Silver color
Drawn by J. Drayton
Reid's famine
Dec 1838
Alosa aurata Spry.
Alosa Neunfinished
⅔ Nat. Size