266 TUNNY. Class IV, 



The firft dorfal fin is placed a little behind the 

 perioral fin, is triangular, and confifts of nine or 

 ten ftifi^ rays ; the fecond lies at a diftance from 

 the other, and has twelve foft rays ^ the pectoral 

 twenty ; the ventral fix : at the bafe of the anal fin 

 is a flrong fpine. 



Between the laft dorfal fin and the tail, are five 

 fmail fins, and the fame number between the anal 

 fin and the tail. 

 Color. The tail is broad and femilunar : the color of the 



back and fides above the lateral line, is a fine 

 green, varied with blue, marked with black lines, 

 pointing downwards •, beneath the line the fides 

 and belly are of a filvery color. 



It is a moft beautiful fifh when alive ; for nothing 

 can equal the brilliancy of its color, which death 

 impairs, but does not wholly obliterate. 



133.TUKNY. 0^/vcr. Ariji. Hifi, an. Lib. Tunny fifh, or Spanifh Mack- 



II. c. 13. &c. Athenaus, rell. Wil. Icth. 176. Rail 



Lib. YH, 301. Oppian Ha- fyn. pij'c. 57. Sib bald Scot. 



iieut. III. 620. Scomber pinnulis ofto vel 



Thunnus. O^id Halieut. g^. novem in extreme dorfo, ex 



Plinii Lib. IX. <:. 15. fulco ad pinnas ventrales, 



Tonno. Sahian. 123. Arted. fynon. 49. 



Le Thon. Belon^ 99. Scomber Thunnus. Sc. pin- 



Thunnus. Rondd. 241. Gef~ nulls utrinque odo. Lin, 



ner pi/c. 957. fyfi. 493. Gronov. Zooph. 



Thunnus vel orcynus. Schont- No. 305. 

 -jelde, 75. 



I HE tunny was a fifii well known to the an- 

 tients, it made a confiderable branch of com- 

 merce \ 



