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nean, with the Tunny, and in summer visits the gulf of Gascon}', 

 in numerous bodies, where it constitutes an important fishery. The 

 back is a blackish blue, gradually fading into the silvery white of the 

 belly. It is frequently found to weigh eighty pounds; its flesh is 

 much whiter than that of the Tunny. 



Auxis*, Cuv. 



The Auxides have, with the corslet and moderate pectorals of the 

 Tunny, the dorsals separate, as in the Mackerels. One species inhabits 

 the Mediterranean. 



Sc. bisus ; the Bonicou, or Scombre Laroche, of Risso; Rafin. 

 Caratt. pi. ii, f. 1; Egypt., XXIV, 6. Back of a fine blue; oblique 

 blackish lines; flesh a deep red. 



Another is taken in the Antilles, called the Thon, or Tunny, 

 which attains a size equal to that of the European Tunny +. 



Sarda J, Cuv. 



The Sardes are distinguished from the Tunnies solely by their separate, 

 pointed, and very strong teeth. 



Sc. sarda, Bl. 334; Aldrov. 313; Salvian. 123; Belon, 179§. 

 The only species known, but common in the Black Sea and Medi- 

 terranean. It is blue, the back obliquely streaked with blackish; 

 remarkable for the extreme length of its gall-bladder; a fact well 

 known to Aristotle ||. It also inhabits both oceans. 



Cybium^j, Cuv. 



The Tassards have the body elongated, and without a corslet; large, 

 compressed, trenchant teeth, resembling lancets; palatine teeth dense as 

 the pile on velvet. Several species are found in the hot parts of both 

 oceans; some of them become very large**. 



TlIYRSITES-j-f, Cuv. 



The Thyrsites differ from the Tassards in the anterior teeth, which are 



* Auxis. antient name of a fish of the Tunny family. 



+ Add, the Tasard, Lacep. IV, p. 8; — the Albacore, Sloane, Jam. I, 1, 1. 



% Sarda was the antient name of the Tunny that was caught and salted in the 

 Western Ocean. 



§ It is the Amia of the antients, and of Rondelet, 238; the Sarda of Rond. 248, 

 is the young of the same species. It is also the Scomber palamitus of Rafin.; the Sc. 

 ponticus, Pall. Zool. Russ. 



|| Arist. Hist. II, c. xv. The gall-bladder of the common Tunny is equally as 

 long. 



^f Cijbium, the antient name of a dish prepared from the Tunny and from another 

 fish of the same family. 



** C. Commersonii, Cuv., Sc. Commersonii, Lacep., or Koiiam, Russ. 135; — C. lineo- 

 latum, Cuv., Mangelang, Russ. I, vii, 53; — C. guttatum, Cuv., or Sc. guttatus, Bl. 

 Schn. pi. v, Vingeram, Russ. 134; — C. maculatum, or Sc. maculatus, Mitch. Ann. 

 New York Lye. I, vi, 8; — C. Regale, Cuv., or Sc. regalis, Bl. 333, which is also the 

 Scnmberomore Plunder, Lacep. Ill, 293; — C. cavalla, or Guarapuca, Marcgr. 178. 



ft The antient name of some fish of this family. 



