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Scomheresox storeri De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Mshes, 220, pi, 34, fig. 111^ 

 1842, New York; Stoker, Hist. Fish. Mass. 137, pi. XXIV, fig. 4, 1867. 



Scomberesox saurus Fleming, Brit. Anim. 184; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit.. 

 iMus. VI, 257, 1806; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. Xr, 21, 1879; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 375, 1883; Jordan & 

 Eteemann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 725, 1896, pi. CXVII, fig. 314, 

 1900. 



Body compressed, elongate, its greatest hight one ninth of 

 total length to base of caudal; anal equal to eye and postorbltal 

 part of head combined; least hight of caudal peduncle equal to 

 eye; both jaws slender and produced, the lower longer than 

 upper, the distance from eye to tip of lower jaw equaling one 

 fifth of total to base of caudal; eye one third as long as post- 

 orbital part of head, about one fifth of length of upper jaw;, 

 small scales on opercle, but none on subopercle; body covered 

 with small scales; dorsal origin at a distance from front of eye 

 equal to five times hight of body, dorsal base three times as 

 long as the eye, longest, dorsal ray one half as long as post- 

 orbital part of head, last dorsal ray equal to eye, five separate 

 finlets behind the dorsal; anal under the dorsal, its base slightly 

 longer, as long as postorbital part of head, longest anal ray 

 equal to longest of the dorsal, last anal ray scarcely equal to- 

 eye, six finlets behind the anal; caudal fin deeply forked, sym- 

 metric, the outer rays as long as the anal base; ventrals mid- 

 way between front of e^^e and base of caudal, length of fin about 

 twice diameter of eye, distance from ventral origin to anal 

 oi^igin equal to length of upper jaw; length of pectoral one 

 fourth the length of head to tip of upper jaw; lateral line con- 

 taining minute, roundish pores, near the ventral edge, in modi- 

 fied scales which extend obliquely backward. D. 11+v; A. IB+vi;, 

 V. i, 5; P. 14. Scales 14-124 (136 to free part of middle caudal 

 rays, 80 rows from axil of pectoral to origin of dorsal); opercle 

 with about 8 rows of scales. 



Back brownish to upper level of eye; sides with a silvery band,, 

 nearly as broad as the eye and almost on the same level; lower 

 parts silvery with a golden tinge overlying it. 



The saury grows to the length of 18 inches. It inhabits tht 

 temperate parts of the Atlantic in Europe and the United 



