BONITO. 99 



No air bladder; the muscle red, and greatly charged with blood. 

 It was a female, full of roe in July. 



Another example offered some differences that are worthy of 

 notice. The length was a foot and seven inches, and the girth 

 a foot. The marking of the corset was not exactly as in the 

 former, and there were only three lines on one side, the dark 

 colour of the back being extended to include the uppermost 

 line. The first dorsal fin was altogether concealed in the chink ; 

 the two first rays of equal length, and close together, fifteen 

 in all; the first ray white. The tongue of a remarkable form, 

 being in front flat and firm, turned up at the middle of the 

 side, and raised into a triangle, which sloped away inward, as 

 if intended to guide backward, as in a gutter, what passed 

 over it; and too firm to be moveable. 



