THAZARD MACKREL. 



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shape, and the tail pretty strongly lunated : the 

 finlets or spurious fins appear to vary in number in 

 different specimens, and consequently can afford 

 no very certain specific mark. In the specimen 

 observed by Mr. Pennant the number was eleven 

 above, and nine below. In the Gmelinian edition 

 of the Systema Naturae, as well as in the preceding 

 one by Linnaeus himself, the number is said to be 

 eight both above and below. 



THAZARD MACKREL. 



Scomber Regalis. S. supra cceruleus, subtus argenteus 9 lateribus 



jlavo striato-maculatis. 

 Mackrel with the body blueish above, silvery below, and the 



sides striped and spotted with yellow. 

 Scomber regalis. Bloch. Scomber Thazard. Cepede. 



Allied to the Tunny in general form, but of a 

 rather more slender shape : size sometimes nearly 

 equal to that of the Tunny : colour blueish brown 

 on the back, and silvery on the sides and abdomen : 

 along each side runs a longitudinal yellow stripe or 

 band, accompanied both above and below by a 

 series of oval or lengthened spots of the same 

 colour : fins yellow : the pectoral ones rather small 

 and short : tail strongly forked or lunated, and 

 furnished, as in the Tunny, on each side the base, 

 with a small semi-coriaceous process : finlets eight 

 above and seven below. Native of the American 

 seas, and in considerable esteem as a food. 



