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351. Damalichthys argyrosomus Girard. (Plate XIII, figures 160 and 161). 

 Porgee. 



Marine: "entering the inlets in thousands." 

 Pacific Coast from British Columbia and Puget Sound to Lower California. 



362. Tautogolabrus adspersus Walbaum. (Plate XI, figures 125 and 126). 

 Cunner. 



Marine: in harbours and bays. 

 Atlantic coasts of North America extending from Labrador and Newfoundland to Sandy 



Hook, and embracing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gaspe Bay, Maritime Provinces, and 



New England States. 



353. Tautoga onitis Linnaeus. (Plate XI, figures 127 and 128). 

 Tautog: Black-fish. 



Marine: among rocks and kelp. 



Atlantic coasts of North America from the Maritime Provinces to South Carolina. 



354. Scomber scombrus Linnaeus. (Piate XI, figures 129 and 130). 

 Common Mackerel. 



Marine. 



Both sides of North Atlantic: on the American side from Labrador to Cape Hatteras, North 

 Carolina; and on the European side from Norway to the Mediterranean and Adriatic. 



355. Scomber japonicus Houttuyn. 

 Chub Mackerel. 



Marine. 



Widely distributed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: extending as far northward as 



British Columbia, Labrador, and England: abounds off the coast of California, in the 



Mediterranean, and "everywhere in Japan" (Jordan, 1905). 



356. Gymnosarda pelamis Linnaeus. 

 Oceanic Bonito. 



Pelagic. 



Warm seas; ranging northward on the western side of the Atlantic to the Bermudas and 

 Cape Cod: recorded from the Atlantic coast of Canada (Whiteaves, 1886, as Euthynnus 

 pelamys):* also recorded from coast of California: coasts of Europe, — including 

 coasts of Britain (Yarrell, 1859, as Thynnus pelamys). 



*The small specimen upon which this record is based is in a very poor state of preservation and hard to determine, 

 but judging by what can be made out from the ragged and broken condition of the fins and their rays, and the other- 

 wise mutilated condition of the specimen it does not appear to be this species. Certain of its characters, some of 

 them more or less obscure, are as follows: — Maxillary not reaching the posterior border of the orbit: pectorals about 

 mid-way between dorsal and ventral outlines: caudal deeply forked: anterior dorsal elongate with 20 rays: posterior 

 dorsal and anal short: 8 dorsal and 7 anal Unlets: many other characters obscured, with little but the flesh remaining 

 on the left side, and skin of the right scaleless, except very small scales, forming a corselet, which does not appear 

 to extend beyond the pectoral fin. It would appear to agree more closely with Sarda than with Gymnosarda. 



