102 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



1891: Cunningham, ibid, II, 71. 



1891: Holt, Jour. M. B. Ass., Plymouth, II, 325. 



1893: Holt, Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc. Dublin, V, 10. 



1897: Brice, Report, U. S. Fish Com. XXIII, 209. 



1897: Holt, Jour. M. B. Ass., Plymouth, V, 112. 



1897: McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 160. 



1898: Moore, Report, U. S. Fish Com., XXIV, 1. 



1899: Williamson, Report, Fishery Board, Scotland, Vol. 17, 125. 



1906: Tracy, Report, R. I. Fish Com., Vol. 37, 33. 



1909: Allen, Jour. Mar. Biol. Ass., Plymouth, VIII, 394. 



82. Scomber COlias (Gmelin). Chub Mackerel; Bull's-eye Mackerel. 

 Geog. Dist.: Atlantic and Pacific, widely distributed north to England, 



Maine, and San Francisco. Appears irregularly on our Atlantic coast. 



Season in R. I.: Rare, and occurring at irregular intervals. A specimen 

 taken in Dutch Island trap June 15, 1909. According to the Boston 

 Herald, of July 9, 1909, big schools of this species were found by the 

 mackerel fleet for the first time in twenty years. These were taken 

 on Georges Banks, vessels bringing in 50,000 to 100,000 each trip since 

 the fourth of July. These fishes were small, running from five to seven 

 hundred to the barrel. Dr. Seth E. Meek describes a peculiar fish 

 taken at Block Island, September 16th, year not given, which was 

 supposed to be a hybrid between this species and the common mackerel. 

 (Jordan and Evermann, "The Fishes of North America," 866.) 



Size: Fourteen inches. 



83. Auxis thazard (Lacepede). Frigate Mackerel; Benito; Tunny. 



Geog Dist.: All warm seas, wandering northward to Cape Cod. Not 

 known on our shores until 1880, when it arrived in countless numbers. 

 (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: This species has been abundant in some years, but is 

 usually rare or absent. Specimen 12^ inches long taken by Mr. 

 Samuel Powell, at Newport. On August 23, 1880, twenty-eight barrels 

 were taken in a mackerel seine ten mile east of Block Island. Immense 

 schools were reported that year between Montauk Point and Georges 

 Banks. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880.) One was reported taken at 

 the mouth of Narragansett Bay in the autumn of 1904. 



Size: Sixteen inches. 



84. Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus). Horse Mackerel; Tunny. 



Geog. Dist.: Pelagic on all warm coasts. North to England, Newfound- 

 land, San Francisco, and Japan. 



