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recently been added to the Scandinavian fauna ; viz., the 

 T. Thunnina, Cuv. & Val., of which a single specimen, 

 two feet nine inches long, and weighing twenty-two 

 pounds (the only one, it is said, ever before identified 

 north of the Mediterranean), was caught near Malmo, in 

 Scania, in 1857. 



The work just quoted also records the addition of 

 another fish, nearly allied to the Tunnies, to the same 

 fauna ; viz., the Plain Bouito {Atixis vulgaris, Cuv. & 

 Val.), an individual, seventeen inches in length, having 

 been captured oflP the coast of Scania, in 1863 ; it is now 

 in the Lund Museum. 



The Sword-fish (Srdnl-Fisk, Sw.; Socsrd-Flsk, 'Novw. 

 and Dan. ; Xiphias Gladius, Linn.), which almost competes 

 with the Tunnv in size, and whose home is also in the 

 Mediterranean, is rare in the Bohus Skargird and on 

 the western coast of Norway. But on the more southern 

 shores of Sweden, as also in the Danish seas, it is not so 

 very uncommon. Occasionally, also, it finds its way to 

 the lower parts of the Baltic, to the coasts of Mecklenburg, 

 Pomerania, and Prussia. According to Nilsson, " it 

 avoids rocky shores, confining itself chiefly to such as are 

 low and sandy." The largest of the specimens that have 

 been captured, or stranded, on the Scandinavian coasts 

 measured a little more than ten feet from the tail to the 

 extremity of the sword. 



The Scad, or Horse Mackerel {Tagg-3Iakrlll, i. e. 

 spined mackerel, Sw. ; Stokker, i. e. pricker, Dan. ; 

 Caranx Trachurus, Cuv.), a fish properly belonging to 

 more southern waters, is not rare in the Bohus Skargard 

 and elsewhere on the western coast, from the Sound to 

 the southern portion of Norway. Kroyer considers its 

 range to the northward to be about the 60°. It is not 

 thought to inhabit the Baltic. Its usual length would 

 seem to be about one foot, but individuals have been found 



