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secured off the Suffolk coast, near Southwold. A large one likewise canie ashore 

 off the Kent coast in 1880, while these fish are said by Mr. R. Couch to be 

 common a few miles from shore around the Scilly Isles, Cape Cornwall, Lands End, 

 Tol-pedw-penwith, to the Lizard ; less so eastwards, but still occasionally found on 

 the Devonshire coast, until about August, when they leave in a south-westerly 

 direction. 



In Ireland, Dr. Jacob obtained one 8 feet 3 inches long, off Dublin Bay, in 

 the autumn of 1841, and which weighed fully 300 lb. 



Occasional notices of the capture of large examples of this fish occur in natural 

 history works. Pennant records a specimen weighing 460 lb. taken at Inverary 

 in 1769. In 1801, three were taken off Margate, being said to be the first record 

 of tunnies so far north on the English coast. In July, 1831, an example 9 feet 

 long was taken at Gairloch, nearly opposite Greenock, it was in pursuit of herrings. 

 1840 they were abundant off Cornwall, and some weighed 80 lb. : 1850, they were 

 common in the Moray Firth, one captured was 9 feet long, while another killed 

 near Inverness was 5 feet (Gordon, Zool. 1852, p. 3459). In March, 1851, one 

 weighing 316 lb. was taken off Dartmouth. In September, 1853, one said to be 

 about 60 stone or 480 lb. weight was stranded in Tees Bay (Hogg, An. Nat. 

 Hist. 2, 1855, xvi, p 213). In September, 1868, an example, measuring 8 feet 

 9 inches, was taken at Dawlish, in Devonshire, it weighed between 3 and 4 

 cwt. : in November, the same year, one weighing* 5 cwt. was secured in 

 the Firth of Forth. On October 6th, 1870, one 6 feet 9 inches long was taken at 

 Yarmouth. July 22nd, 1873, one 9 feet long near Plymouth: November, 1876, 

 one 9 feet 4 inches at Bacton. In May, 1880, the cranium of one, 10 inches across, 

 was found off Margate : it must have belonged to a fish fully 7 feet long, and 

 which probably weighed about 500 lb. 



But the foregoing are by no means the largest recorded. Storer mentions one 

 taken near Cape Ann, in America, weighing 1000 lb. While in Sardinia 

 tunnies under 100 lb. weight are termed scampirro : from 1 to 300 lb. mezzo- 

 tonno, " half -tunny." They frequently attain 1000 lb., and Cetti asserts that 

 they run to 1800 lb. 



The figure is from an example in the National collection. 



2. Orcynus germo, Plate XXXVI. 



? Albacore, Sloane, Yoy. Jamaica, 1707, i, p. 28, pi. i, f. 1. 



AJilonqlii, Duhamel, Peches, ii, Sect, vii, pp. 203, 207; Cetti, Nat. Hist. Sard, 

 iii, p. 191. 



Scomber alatunga, Gmel. Linn. p. 1330; Walb. Artedi, iii, p. 222; Lacep. iii, 

 p. 21 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 590. 



Scomber germo, Lacep. ii, p. 598 and iii, p. 1 ; Bennett, Whaling Voyage, ii, 

 p. 278. 



Orcynus alalonga, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 419: Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 238; 

 Couch," Zoologist, i846, p. 1413, c. fig.; Scott, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 1865, 

 xvi, p. 268. 



Thynnus alalonga, Cuv. and Val. viii, p. 120, pi. ccxv; Cuv. Regne Anim. 111. 

 Poiss.'pl. xlvii, f. 1 ; White, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 31 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. Second 

 Supp. p. 14, c. fig. (Ed. 3) ii, p. 220, c. fig. ; Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii, p. 4, 

 and Pro. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 78; Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 366; Thompson, Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 1861, p. 340. 



Tin/ nuns Pacific us and argenti-vittatns, Cuv. and Val. viii, pp. 133, 134; 

 Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 366. 



Thynnus balteatus, Cuv. and Val. viii, p. 136. 



/ Au.ris Sloanii, Cuv. and Val. viii, p. 148. 



Thynnus albacora, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 77, and Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 iii, p. 4; Giinther, Catal. ii, p. 365. 



Thynnus macropterus and sibi, Temm. and Schleg. Fauna Japon. Poiss. 

 pp. '.'7'. 98, pi. 1 and li ; Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Con. xxiv, Makr. p. 37. 



Long-Jmned tun mi, \{. Q. Couch, Zoologist, p. 1413, c. fig. 



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