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SCOMBERESOX. 



Both jaws slender, and extended to considerable length; furnished 

 with slender teeth. Scales on the body, and a line of them of 

 keeled structure along each side of the belly. Several separate small 

 fins above and below between the dorsal and anal fins and the tail. 

 Abdominal fishes. 



SKIPPER. 



SAURY. SKOPSTER. MACKAREL GARRTCK. HALIOU. 



Acus minor, JoNSTON; Table 15, f. 15. 



Saurus acuhus simih's, Rondeletius. 



Lacertus vel Saurus, Willotjghby ; p. 232. 



Esox smirus, Turton's Linnasua. Donovan; pi. 116. 



Scomberesox saurus, Cuvier. 



" " Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 184. 



" " Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 44-6. 



'* Camperii, Eisso. Bloch. Schneider; pi. 78, 2. 



Belone saurus, Jenyns; Manual, p. 419. 



This is a migratory fish, which comes to our coasts at the 

 beginning of summer, and my earliest notes of its appearance, 

 from the information of fishermen at the opening of the British 

 Channel, are betAveen the first week in June and the end of 

 that month; and soon afterwards they spread themselves in 

 companies round the United Kingdom, up to the most northern 

 districts, where, in calm weather, they may be seen to afford a 

 considerable degree of amusement to an observer. It may 

 happen that the first appearance of this fish is announced by 

 its presence in the shallow water of some of our harbours, in 

 the pools of which it may be left by the ebbing tide, and it 

 has been sent, with an inquiry as to its name and rarity, from 

 a portion of a river so high that the water was fresh; but 



