94 OSBECK'S VOTAGE. 



to it, oppofite to each other, that it may look 

 itill more like a flying-fifh ; you add another 

 top of a feather or two for the tail-fin j at the 

 end of this artificial nying-fiih you faflen a 

 firing: you then move it up and down over 

 the water on either fide of the ihip, till the 

 bonnet bites. The bonnet is likewife ftricken 

 by harpoons, which is another way of taking 

 it. The name of this fifh is to be met with 

 in many accounts of voyages ; however, I mall 

 give the following defcription for thofe who 

 have no opportunity of viewing the fifh itfelf: 



Scomber pulcher d , pinna dorfalis anterior is 

 ojjiculis quindecim, pinna lis fubtus inter Caudam 

 & Anum feptcm. 



In Swedifh Bonnet ; in Spanifh Bonito. 



The dorfal-fi.n has fourteen or fifteen radii, 

 the pecloral fins each twenty- eight, the ven- 

 tral fins each feven, and the anal fin fourteen : 

 the tail is large, bifurcated, and has twenty- 

 fix rays : the head is comprefTed : the body is 

 rather elevated than flat on the fides : the belly 

 is not fo round as the back : the mouth is large, 

 or rather very wide : the lower jaw is the 

 longed : the forehead runs into a point : the 

 eyes are of a middling fize, they are placed in 



* Scomber Pelamit Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 492. 



the 



