BONITO. 



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ACAXTHOPTERYGI1. 



SCOMBEK1D&. 



THE BONITO, 



OB STRIPE-BELLIED TUNNY. 



Thynnus pelamys, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. viii. p. 113, pi. 214. 

 Scomber ,, LINNSUS. 



,, ,, Bonito, COUCH'S MS. 



,. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 363. 



SPECIMENS of this fish occasionally occurring on the Corn- 

 ish coast, the description of which by Mr. Couch will here be 

 inserted ; another, mentioned in the Magazine of Natural 

 History, vol. vi. p. 529, by Dr. Scouler ; besides a notice by 

 Dr. Fleming, on the authority of Stewart's Elements of Na- 

 tural History, the species is admitted among British Fishes. 



It should, however, be also stated that two distinct fishes 

 have been included under the term Bonito (Scomber pelamys, 

 Linn.) : the first, the Thynnus pelamys of Cuvier and M. 

 Valenciennes, the subject of the present article, has longi- 

 tudinal bands on the sides of the belly, and very minute 

 teeth ; the second, the Pelamys sarda of Cuvier and M. 

 Valenciennes, has dark transverse bars reaching from the 



