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SCOMBERID^. 



belly, and, by tlie time it attains the length of three feet, are 

 no longer apparent. 



Most of the works on Ichthyology containing a figure of 

 the adult fish, a young one, in which only a small part of 

 the anal fin was worn away, has been selected for representa- 

 tion in the cut at the head of this article. 



