374 scoMBRiD.*;. 



6. NAUCRATES. 



Naucrates, {Rqfinesque) Cuv. JR^gne Anhn. ; Cuv. Sf Vol. viii. p. 312. 



Body oblong, siibcylindrical, covered with small scales ; cleft of 

 the movith moderate ; a keel on each side of the tail ; the spinous 

 dorsal reduced to a few free spines ; spurious fins none ; ventrals 

 thoracic. Villiform teeth in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine 

 bones. Branchiostegals seven ; air-bladder present, small. Pyloric 

 appendages in moderate number. 



All the seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



1. Naucrates ductor. 



The Pilot. 



ndfiTTiXof, ^lian. ii. c. 15, xv. c. 2.3 ; Athen. vii. 282 ; Oppian- i. p. 188. 



Pompilus, Orid. Hal. v. 101; Tlin. ix. c. 15, xxxii. c. 11; Gemier, 



p. 881 ; Aldrov. iii. c. 19. p. 325; Willughhy,^. 215, App. pi. 8. f. 2; 



Ray, p. 101 (not Rondel.). 

 Pilote, Dutertre, Hist. Antilles, ii. p. 223. 

 Coryphffina, no. 3, Artedi, Genera, p. 16. 

 Gasterosteus ductor, L. St/st. Nat. i. p. 489 ; Bri'mn. Pise. Mass. p. 67 ; 



Bennett, Wlialim/ Voyage, ii. p. 274. 

 Scomber, sp., Gronov. Zoopliyl. no. 309 ; Koelreuter, Nov. Comtn. Pe- 



<ro;?. ix. p. 464. t. 10. f. 4,5. 

 Gasterosteus antecessor, Daldorf, Skrivt. Nut. Selsk. Kjobenh. ii. 



p. 166. 

 Duhamel, Peches, ii. sect. 4. pi. 4. f. 4, pi. 9. f. 3. 

 Scomber ductor, Bl. t. 338; Bl Sclin. p. 32; Hassclq. Iter, p. 336 j 



Mitch. Trans. Lit. fy Phil Soc. New York, i. p. 424. 



koelreuteri, Bl. Schn. p. 570. 



Centrouotus couductor, Lacep. iii. p. 311 ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 428, 



and Bur. Merid. iii. p. 193 ; Couch, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 82. 

 Naucrates ductor. Cur. Sf Val. viii. p. 312. pi. 232; Yarrcll,Brit. 



Fishes, i. p. 170 ; Guichen. Exphr. Alger. Poins. p. 60. 



noveboracensis, Cnv. ^- Val. viii. p. 325. 



indicus, Cuv. ^ Val. viii. p. 326 ; Cuv. Regne Anini. III. Poiss. 



pi. 54. f. 1 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. Poiss. p. 157. pi. 14 ; Richardson, 



Ichth. Chin. p. 269. 



koelreuteri, Cuv. ^ Val viii. p. 327. 



Thynnus pompilus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 123. 



^■^^A^s- -^-.-e^- Csec. pylor. 12-15. Vert. 10/16. 

 Bluish, with five to seven dark vertical bars. 

 Nearly all the seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



rt. Adult : stuffed. Polperro. 



b. Adult : stuftcd. Falmouth. Presented by W. C. Cocks, Esq. 



c. Fine specimen. Madeira. Presented by the Rev. P. T. Lowe. 



d. Half-grown : stuffed : not good state. Cape Seas. From Sir A. 



Smith's Collection. 



e. Young. South Pacific. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 



f. Half-grown. N.W. coast of America. Presented by Lieut. Wood. 



g. Adult. Presented by I. Inglis, Esq. 

 Ji. Adult. From the Haslar Collection. 

 ;. Adult. 



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