266 TUNNY. Class IV. 



The firft dorfal fin is placed a little behind the 

 pectoral fin, is triangular, and confifts of nine or 

 ten ft iff rays ; the fecond lies at a diftance from 

 the other, and has twelve fofc rays ; the pectoral 

 twenty ; the ventral fix : at the bafe of the anal fin 

 is a ftrong fpine. 



Between the laft dorfal fin and the tail, are five 

 fmall fins, and the fame number between the anal 

 fin and the tail. 

 Color. The tail is broad and femilunar : the color of the 



back and fides above the lateral line, is a fine 

 green, varied with blue, marked with black lines, 

 pointing downwards ; beneath the line the fides 

 and belly are of a filvery color. 



It is a mod beautiful fim when alive \ for nothing 

 can equal the brilliancy of its color, which death 

 impairs, but does not wholly obliterate. 



133-TuNNr. Qbvvog. Arifi. Hiji. an. Lib. Tunny fifh, or Spanifh Mack- 



II. c. 13. &c. Atbentfus, rell. Wil. Ictb. 176. Rail 



Lib. VII. 301. Oppian Ha- fyn. pifc. $7. Sibbald Scot, 



lieut. III. 620. Scomber pinnulis otto vel 



Thunnus. Ovid Halieut. 95. novem in extremo dorfo, ex 



Plinii Lib. IX. c. 15. fulco ad pinnas ventrales. 



Tonno. Salvian. 123. Arted. fynon. 49. 



Le Thon. Belen, 99. Scomber Thunnus. Sc. pin- 



Thunnus. Rondel. 241. Gef- nulis utrinque oclo. Lin, 



ner pifc. 957. fyfi. 493. GroHov. Zooph. 



Thunnus vel orcynus. Schone- No. 305. 

 *ve/de 9 75. 



THE tunny was a fifh well known to the an- 

 tients, it made a confiderable branch of com- 

 merce ; 



