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weigh 1000 pounds. The killer whale is the most dreaded enemy 

 of the tunny. 



In southern California this fish is highly prized by anglers 

 who are fond of big game and hard play. In the Bay of Chaleur 

 and off Caraquette, in the Gulf of St Lawrence region, 100 

 tunny were captured by means of baited lines, and the fishing 

 was considered exciting because the fish pulled with such vio- 

 lence as to endanger the lives of the fishermen by dragging them 

 overboard. This kind of exercise might be had near Rockport 

 Mass, or off the New Jersey coast annually in summer. 



Genus SARDA Cuvier 



Body rather elongate, covered with small scales, those of the 

 pectoral region forming a corselet; caudal peduncle slender, 

 strongly keeled; head large, pointed, compressed; mouth large; 

 teeth in the jaws rather strong, conical, slightly compressed, 

 similar teeth on the palatines, but none on the vomer; maxillary 

 not concealed by preorbital; gill rakers long and strong; first 

 dorsal long and rather low, of 18 to 22 rather stout spines, 

 which are gradually shortened behind; interval between the 

 last spine and the second dorsal short; second dorsal small, fol- 

 lowed by 8-9 finlets; anal fin similar, usually with one less fin- 

 let; paired fins small; pectorals placed below the level of the 

 pupil; no air bladder; pyloric caeca very numerous, treelike; 

 vertebrae normally formed, 50 to 54 in number. Fishes of 

 rather large size, of metallic coloration. (After Jordan and 



Evermann) 



197 Sarda sarda (Bloch) 



Bonito 



Scomber sarda BLOCH, Ichth. X, 35, pi. 334, 1793, Europe. 



Pelamys sarda DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 106, pi. 9, fig. 27, 1842; GUN- 



THER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II. 367, 1860; STOKER, Hist. Fish. Mass. 63, 



pi. XI, fig. 5, 1867. 



Sarda pelamys GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 15, 1879. 

 Sarda mcditerranca JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, T. S. Nat. Mus. 427, 1883. 

 Sarda sarda BEAN. Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 138, 1888; DRESSLAR & FESLER, 



JBull. U. S. F. C. VII, 440, pi. VIII, 1889; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 



47, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 872, 1896; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 360, 



1897, Gravesend Bay. 



