SPANISH MACKEREL. 131 



ACANTHOPTERYGU. SCOMBER/DA'. 



THE SPANISH MACKEREL. 



Scomber colias, GMEI.IN. 



,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. viii. p. 39, pi. 209. 



Coly Mackrel, TURTON, Brit. Fauna, p. 100, sp. 76. 



,, maculatus, Spanish Mackerel, COUCH, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 22, 



ME. COUCH and Dr. Turton appear to be the only Bri- 

 tish naturalists who have noticed this second species of 

 Mackerel on the British coast ; and the description of this 

 fish by Mr. Couch, who states that a few of them are taken 

 every year on the Cornish coast, agrees so closely with the 

 account by Cuvier and M. Valenciennes in the Ichthyolo- 

 gical work above quoted, who, with Mr. Couch, consider it 

 as the colias of Rondeletius, that I shall, by permission, 

 adopt his description, taken from a recent Cornish specimen. 



" This fish attains the weight of four or five pounds ; but 

 the specimen described measured no more than fourteen and 

 a half inches in length : the figure round and plump, six and 

 a half inches in compass near the pectoral fins ; the thickness 

 of its figure being carried far towards the tail. Mouth large ; 

 jaws of equal length ; teeth small ; tongue moveable and 

 pointed : head large and long ; eye large : from the snout 



