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Largest of the mackerels reaching lo feet or more in length 

 and weighing 150 pounds. A pelagic fish on all warm coasts, 

 and an excellent food-fish. The only occurrence on our coast I 

 noted concerned a large example examined in the Philadelphia 

 market. It was taken near Brighton in the ocean, November 4th, 

 1898. 



Thunnus thynmis Fowler, Science, XVII, April 10, 1903, p. 

 594. 



Genus Sarda Cuvier. 



The Bonitos. 



Sarda sarda (Bloch). 



Bonito. Bone Jack. Bone Eater. Skip Jack. 



Bonito. Sarda sarda (Bloch). 



Head 3^ ; depth ^yi ; D. XXI-iv, 12, 8; A. iv, 11, 7; width 

 of head 1% in its length; depth of head over posterior margin 

 of orbit I ^ ; snout 3 ; eye 7 ; maxillary 2 ; interorbital space 3% ; 

 third dorsal spine 2% ; first branched dorsal ray 3^ ; first 

 branched anal ray 3^ ; pectoral 2^/10 ; ventral 3^^ ; greatest 

 width of caudal peduncle 5. Body robust, moderately compressed, 

 and elongate. Head large, compressed and pointed. Snout long 

 and conic. Eye small, circular and with rather narrow adipose 

 eyelid. Mouth large and jaws even. Teeth rather strong, 

 slightly compressed in jaws, also on palatines, but none on 

 vomer. Maxillary not concealed, reaching a little beyond orbit 

 and its posterior expansion a trifle over half of same. Interorbital 



