CHAPTER V 



rHE MACKERELS, HORSE-MACKERELS, AND 

 ALLIED FORJAS 



We now come to a large and interesting group, or rather 

 several related groups, of fishes for the most part residing 

 at the surface of the sea and in the neighbourhood of 

 land, at any rate during a portion of the year. One or 

 two of the larger species, on the other hand, keep out in 

 the deeper water, only wandering occasionally within the 

 littoral waters, while in the dory we have a fish that lives 

 and feeds close to the sea bed. The larger tunnies and 

 bonitoes, which, although periodically taken on our shores, 

 must be regarded as stragglers from the Mediterranean by 

 way of the open Atlantic, are more appropriately enumerated 

 in the chapter on "Rare and Uncommon Fishes"; and in the 

 present chapter account will be taken only of the commoner 

 kinds and their close relations, these being : — 



