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GILDED MACKREL. 



ficomber Auratus. S. aureus, pinnulis spuriis quinque. Ijn. 



Gmel. Houtuyn Act. HaarL 20. 

 Gold-coloured MackreJ, with five spurious fins. 



Much allied to the preceding, as well as to the 

 common Mackrel, but differs in colour, as well as 

 in the number of rays in the anal fin, which amounts 

 to six only. Native of the Japanese sea. 



TUNNY. 



Scomber Thynnus. S. fusco-coerulescens, abdominc argenteo, 



pinnvlis supra infraque suhdenis flams, 

 Dusky-blueish Mackrel, with silvery abdomen, and about ten 



yellow finlets above and below. 

 Scomber Thynnus. Lin. Block. 



Thynnus. Plin. L 9, c. 15. Coretta alba Pisonis. Will. 

 Tunny. Venn. Brit. Zool. 3. 



The Tunny is a very large species, growing to 

 the length of eight, or even ten feet, but much more 

 commonly seen of about the length of two feet. It 

 is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean, Northern, 

 Indian, and American seas, and is of a gregarious 

 nature, frequently assembling in large shoals. It 

 is an animal of great strength and fierceness, prey- 

 ing on all kinds of smaller fishes, and is, said to be the 

 peculiar persecutor of the Mackrel and the Flying- 

 Fish. Its flesh, though rather coarse, was much 

 esteemed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who 

 established their Tunny-Fisheries as in modera 



