360 



TUNNY MACKREL. Class IV. 



2. Tunny. Quvvoc. Arist. Hist. an. Lib. 



ii. c. 13- &c. Athenatus, 



Lib. vii. 301. Oppian Ha- 



lieut. iii. 620. 

 Thunnus. Ovid Halieut. Q5. 



Plinii Lib. ix. c. 15. 

 Tonno. Salvian. 123. 

 Le Thon. Belon 99. 

 Thunnus. Rondel. 241. Ges- 



ner pise. Q57. 

 Thunnus vel orcynus. Schone- 



velde, 75. 

 Tunny fish, or Spanisn Mack- 



rell. Wil. Ichth. 1 76. Raii 



Syn. pise. 57. Sibbald Scot. 



Scomber pinnulis octo vel no- 

 vem in extremo dorso, ex 

 sulco ad pinnas ventrales. 

 Arted. Synon. 49. 



Scomber Thunnus. Sc. pin- 

 nulis utrinque octo. Lin. 

 Syst. 493. Gm. Lin. 1330. 

 Gronov. Zooph. No. 305. 



Duhamel Tr. des Pesches, iii. 

 sect. 7. 190. tab. 5. 



Le Thon. Block ichth. ii. 87. 

 tab. 55. 



De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 

 sons, ii. 605. 



J- HE tunny was a fish well known to the an- 

 tients ; it made a considerable branch of com- 

 merce ; the time of its arrival into the Mediter- 

 ranean from the ocean was observed, and sta- 

 tions for taking it established in places it most 

 frequented ; the eminences above the fishery 

 were styled ©vwoo-xoTfe'ia.* and the watchmen that 

 gave notice to those below of the motions of the 

 fish, Gun'omtoVoi.t From one of the former the 



* Strabo Lib. v. 156. 



f Oppian Halieut. iii. 638. This person answers to what 

 the Cornish call a Huer, who watches the arrival of the pil- 

 chards. 



