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Eight finlets above, and as many below. Two dorsal fins, with a 

 small spine between-them. 



The forepart of the first dorsal, making more than half of it, is black ; 

 the remainder white. 



Second dorsal fin and finlets, and caudal, brown. 



Pectoral fin acuminated ; and brown on the outside, and black within. 



A spurious finlet in the course of the lateral line, and near its pos- 

 terior extremity. Two others somewhat curved, between the former 

 and the caudal fin ; one above and the other below. Skin near them 

 greenish. 



Ventral fins small, and a kind of spurious fin between them. 



Rays, Br. 5. V. 4. P. 20. D. 17—16. A. 18. C. 21. 



7. Banded Mackerel. (Scomber zonatus.) With brown bands down 

 the sides, and white tips to the fins. 



Taken in the bay of New-York, occasionally, during the warm season. 

 One that was taken at a city wharf, on the 26th of August, 1814, was 

 seven inches and a half long, rather more than two deep, and somewhat 

 above one in thickness. I have known one of nine inches long, that 

 weighed rather more than half a pound. 



Colour of the back an elegant greenish blue ; sides paler ; belly al- 

 most white. Perpendicular brown bands on the sides, to the number, 

 usually, of six, from a quarter to half an inch wide. The foremost in- 

 cludes the pectoral fins. Body covered with very small scales. 



From the eyes runs a crescent, reaching almost to the foremost dor- 

 sal fin. 



Tail deeply forked and yellow ; the upper and lower extremities 

 neatly tipped with white. Anal rays yellowish, and their extremities 

 fringed -prettily with white. Dorsals brown, and the summits of the 

 foremost four or five rays of the second dorsal fin likewise whitened. 



Has two dorsal fins, the foremost of which is feebly spinous. The 



