THE HOESE MACKREL. 



Similar to the common mackrol. 



skinny part taken away. They are then spread 

 out for a short time to dry, and afterwards salted 

 and hung up in a net, to drain some of the 

 remaining moisture from them. When this is 

 finished, they are laid in a kind of seive till 

 thoroughly dry and fit for use. 



THE BASTARD, or HORSE MACKREL, 



LIKEWISE denominated the scad by Pen- 

 nant, very much resembles in fonn the common 

 mackrel. On the side it has sixty-eight scuta, or 

 bony plates, placed one over the other like the 

 tiles on the roof of a house, and each of which 

 is armed with a sharp point curved towards the 

 tail. The upper part of the eye is covered with 

 a film or cuticle. 



This fish is not more than seven or eight 

 inches long near Kiel, on the coast of Holstein ; 

 but on our shores its usual length is a foot, and 

 two feet in the Mediterranean. It was not 

 known to the ancient naturalists, or not distin- 

 guished by them. 



The horse maekrel is a voracious fish. Wil- 

 loughby found the small fish called the launce in 

 its stomach. Like the common mackrel it is 

 gregarious, and appears in shoals in the spring 

 upon the sea coasts. As it spawns at the same 

 time, it is sometimes caught with the mackrel, 

 both by net and line. The flesh of this fish is 



