422 MITCHILL ON THE FISHES OF NEW-YORK. 



as many of them as could subsist. My assistant in this undertaking 

 was my uncle, Uriah Mitchill, Esq. high sheriff of Queens county. 

 We filled a very large churn with the water of Rockankama pond. 

 We put so few perch into it that there was no necessity for changing it 

 on the road. We were in a wagon, and came the whole distance on a 

 walk, without stopping to refresh either man or horse. The project of 

 transporting the fish to Success Pond was completely answered ; and in 

 this way was the yellow perch carried to the Hempstead waters. (See 

 Medical Repository, vol. 3. p. 422.) 



Rays, P. 14. V. 5. D. 12—14. A. 10. C. 19. 



SCOMBER. MACKEREL. 



Generic character. 



Body oblong, smooth, sometimes carinated by the lateral line. Small 

 or spurious fins, (finlets,) in most species, above and below, toward the 

 tail. 



1 . Thimble eyed, bull eyed, or chub mackerel. (Scomber grex.) 



Length about ten inches. Body round and tapering away. Lateral 

 line crooked. Back marked with meandering lines of pale and dark 

 green. 



Colour, near the lateral line, of a somewhat lighter green and less 

 mottled. The rest of the surface, a pigeon's-neck hue, variegated and 

 changeable like one of copper. 



Five finlets above, and as many below. First anal ray spinous. 

 Comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New-Yo? k, 

 in autumn. This was memorably the case in 17ai and ltti3, when th© 



