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SCOMBEllJDiE. 



ACANTHOPTERYCII. 



SCOMBERID^. 



THE BONITO, 



OR STRIPED-BELLIED TUNNY. 



Thynnus pelamys, Cuv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. viii. p. 113, pi. 214. 

 Scomber ,, Linn.cus. 



,, ,, Bonito, Codch's MS. 



Specimens of this fish occasionally occurring on the 

 Cornish coast, the description of which by Mr. Couch will 

 here be inserted ; another, mentioned in the Magazine of 

 Natural History, vol. vi. p. 529, by Dr. Scouler ; besides a 

 notice by Dr. Fleming, on the authority of Stewart's Ele- 

 ments of Natural History, — the species is admitted among 

 British Fishes. 



It should, however, be also stated that two distinct fishes 

 have been included under the term Bonito {Scomber pelamys, 

 Linn.) : the first, the Thynnus pelamys of Cuvier and M. 

 Valenciennes, the subject of the present article, has longi- 

 tudinal bands on the sides of the belly, and very minute 

 teeth ; the second, the Pelamys sarda of Cuvier and M. 

 Valenciennes, has dark transverse bars reaching from the 

 ridge of the back to the lateral line, and large teeth ; and 



