1880. | Zoology. 809 
vicinity of Block island. It will interest the “ Ichthyophagists’ 
Club” to know that several persons in Newport hare seated the 
fish, and pronounce it inferior to the bonito. Part of the flesh, 
that on the posterior part of the body, is white, but behind the 
gills it is black and rank, while the meat near the backbone is 
said to be of disagreeable, sour flavor. 
It is hard to predict what its influence will be upon other fishes 
. occupying our waters. Its mouth is small and its teeth 
8 le, so that it is hardly likely to become a ravager like the 
onito and the bluefish. There is little probability, on the other 
= the tunny. The captain of the vessel, Joshua Riggs, reports 
that about a week ago he had a hundred barrels in the seine at 
one time, and saw over twenty schools of them. He saw them 
as far east as Sow-and-Pig light ship. They are very easy to 
feed on mackerel food. Mr. Daniel Hiltz, of the same vessel, 
says that he caught one of just the same kind in February, 1879, 
on a haddock trawl on the eastern part of the Middle Bank in 
forty fathoms of water. He took it to Boston, where it was 
called a young bonito.” 
f the schooner Sarah C. Wharf, says 
eastward of here; the 
took a number of bar- 
dollar a barrel. An- 
took about fifty 
Block island. The captain an 
M. F¥ohnson, of Newburyport, just arri 
they saw abundance of the Auxis, bu 
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