Clafs IV. ES UW). NOON OS 223 
The tail is broad and femilunar: The color of Color. 
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. 
Dl he vay eg INN hays 
Bovvos. Arif. Hift. an. ib, ii, ‘Tunny fith, or Spanifh Mack- 
co 13. &e. Atheneus. lid. vir. rell. Wil. Icth. 176. Rait 
301. Oppian Halieut.iii. 620. — Lim pics 57. 
Thunnus. Ovid. Halieut. 95. Scomber pinnulis octo vel no- 
gs. Plinit. lib. ix. c. 15. vem in extremo dorfo, ex 
Tonno. Salvian. 123. fulco ad pinnas ventrales, 
Le Thon. Belon. gg. Arted. fynon. 49. 
Thunnus. Rondel. 241. Gefner Scomber'Thunnus. Sc. pinnulis 
pile. 957- utrinque otto. Lin. f/f. 493. 
‘Thunnus vel orcynus. Schone-  Gronov. Zooph. No. 305+ 
velde. 75. : 
A la tunny was a fith well known to the antients, 
it made a confiderable branch of commerce ; 
the time of its arrival into the Mediterranean from the 
ocean was obferved, and ftations for taking them efta- 
blifhed in places it moft frequented; the eminencies 
above the fifhery were ftyled @uwocxorciz*, and the 
watchmen that gave notice to thofe below of the mo- 
tions of the fifh, @uwocxéwo: **. From one of the for- 
* Strabo. lib. v. 156. 
** Oppian Halieut. iii. 638. This perfon anfwers to what the 
Cornifo calla Huer, who watches the arrival of the pilchards. 
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