Herring
a well-known fish, Clupea harengus. The head is one-fifth its total length; there are small teeth in both jaws; the suboperculum is rounded; the ventral fins begin under the middle of parts blue or green, lower ones silverythe dorsal; the anal has 16 rays. Upper The herring is of immense ecowhite. Length 10 or 12 inches. Food, the eggs of fishes, small crabs, and worms. seems about 45° N. lat. nomic value. The S. limit of the species HERRNHUT (hern'höt), a town in the kingdom of Saxony, 18 miles S. E. of Bautzen; celebrated as a chief seat of the MORAVIANS (q. v.) or Herrnhu- of Bautzen; celebrated as a chief seat ters, who settled here in 1722.
HERSCHEL HERTHA