﻿FISHES. 
  

  

  217 
  

  

  Family 
  SCOMBRID^, 
  Owner. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SCOMBER, 
  Artedi. 
  

  

  Scomber 
  scomber, 
  Linn. 
  The 
  Mackerel. 
  

  

  Fairly 
  abundant 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  east 
  coast, 
  and 
  is 
  caught 
  by 
  

   line 
  and 
  artificial 
  fly 
  during 
  summer 
  and 
  autumn 
  ; 
  in 
  recent 
  

   years 
  many 
  have 
  been 
  landed 
  by 
  trawlers. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ORCYNUS 
  (Cuvier), 
  Luthen. 
  

  

  Orcynus 
  thynnus, 
  Linn; 
  Tlie 
  Tunny. 
  

  

  " 
  Several 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  fish 
  have 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  

   been 
  taken 
  with 
  us. 
  A 
  very 
  large 
  one 
  was 
  captured 
  in 
  a 
  

   salmon 
  net 
  at 
  Portsoy. 
  It 
  measured 
  over 
  nine 
  feet 
  in 
  length." 
  

   Edward. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Gordon's 
  "Fauna 
  of 
  Moray," 
  Zoologist, 
  1852, 
  

   pp. 
  34-55, 
  he 
  mentions 
  the 
  above 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Thynnus 
  

   vulgaris, 
  and 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  In 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1850 
  several 
  individuals 
  

   of 
  the 
  shoal 
  or 
  herd 
  which 
  seemed 
  to 
  have 
  approached 
  Britain 
  

   that 
  year 
  were 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  the 
  Moray 
  Firth 
  ; 
  first 
  one, 
  killed 
  

   at 
  Portsoy 
  in 
  a 
  salmon 
  net, 
  measured 
  nine 
  feet 
  in 
  length 
  ; 
  

   another, 
  at 
  Clachnahary, 
  near 
  Inverness, 
  measured 
  five 
  feet." 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  caught 
  at 
  Newtonhill, 
  Kincardineshire, 
  in 
  a 
  

   salmon 
  net, 
  August 
  18th, 
  1876, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  my 
  possession. 
  

   The 
  skull 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  occasionally 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  trawl 
  

   and 
  line-fishers, 
  and 
  I 
  found 
  it 
  on 
  one 
  occasion 
  cast 
  on 
  the 
  

   beach 
  at 
  Aberdeen. 
  

  

  Genus 
  THYNNUS 
  (Cuvier), 
  Luthen. 
  

   Thynnus 
  pelamys, 
  Cuv. 
  Bonito. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Elem. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  vol. 
  i., 
  p. 
  363, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  

   of 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  Stewart, 
  this 
  fish 
  is 
  recorded 
  as 
  having 
  occurred 
  in 
  

   the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth. 
  

  

  One 
  was 
  caught 
  at 
  Kirkside, 
  1859, 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  Montrose 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  