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ventral and anal yellow : fpurious dorfal fins united : on the covers of 

 the gills a black fpot. 

 Place. Carolina.^-Dodot Gakdzt^, 



TAIL. 



153. Yellow- ' Sc. Chryfurus, Lin. 494. 



Without teeth : the fpurious fins united and yellow : fpines 

 ■ * placed at fome diftance before the anal fin : tail yellow, 

 Place. The famej)lace, and difcoverer. 



I cJl. Tu N *ry. Br. Zoo'l.iii. N" 133. — Spanijh Mackrel, Law/on, 15;. — Bloch. ii. 87. tab. lv. 



J A WS O N fays, that they arc caught with book and line, in tb ; 

 inlets, and out at fea, and that they grow to the length of tw 

 feet or more. 



Few fifh fpread farther than this. It is found in the Chinefe, in the Indian ■ 

 in the Norwegian, the Britijh, the Mediterranean, the North American, 

 and the Brajlian feas. I fufpedl that thefe are diftinft fpecies, qr perhaps 

 varieties from age or climate. That which I had opportunity of examining, 

 from a fubjeft juft taken in Loch Fine, differed from thofe commonly 

 defcribed or figured ; but it quite agrees with the gigantic kind, fo 

 ■well diftinguifhed from the others, and engraven by Rondektius, lib. 

 viii. c. 12. p. 249. under the name of Orcynus. This is a point 

 which muft be decided by thofe who inhabit places where thefe fifiaes 

 are taken in abundance. But I am confident of the fidelity of the 

 drawing, and of the defcription of mine in the Britijh Zoology. 



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