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am quite positive that we have two species of Scomber on this coast. Caranx 
trachurus has been scarce here this year.’ ” 
I should mention that the late Mr. John Nimmo, when examining with 
me the figures in Yarrell’s British Fishes, stated that the Garfish (Be- 
lone vulgaris ) is called Spanish Mackerel by the fishermen at Roundstone. 
The Tunny, Thynnus vulgaris, Cuv.' and Val. 
The following note, contributed by me to the Annals of Nat. Hist, 
(vol. v. p. 9), contained the only information which I then possessed re- 
specting the tunny, as an Irish species : — 
“ Dr. Jacob (Professor of Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons) of 
Dublin informs me, that during the herring season, about twelve years ago, he 
purchased a specimen of this fish, about 2 feet in length, (and evidently a recent 
capture,) from a fisherman who supplied him with the rare species he procured, 
and whose ordinary fishing-ground was off Dublin Bay, within forty miles of 
the metropolis.” 
In the Autumn of 1841, a large tunny was obtained in Ballyholme 
Bay, near Bangor, in the County of Down. Full particulars of its cap- 
ture were given in the Northern Whig newspaper, of 4th Nov., 1841, 
from which I take the annexed extract : — 
“ It measured 8 feet 3 inches in length, 5 feet 4 inches in girth, and was esti- 
mated by several gentlemen who saw it to be fully 300 lbs. weight. It was 
first observed by a farmer in the neighbourhood, floundering on the sand in a 
place where the tide was rapidly ebbing ; and, from the powerful struggles and 
tremendous plunges which it made when it found the water leaving it, seemed 
much larger than it really was.” 
The Bonito, or Stripe-Bellied Tunny, Thynnus Pelamys, 
Cuv. and Yal. 
Of this species, which is rarely captured in the British seas, an ex- 
ample, taken on the coast of Wexford some years ago, was sent in a fresh 
state to the Royal Dublin Society, and is preserved in their Museum ; its 
length is 29 inches. 
Dr. Harvey, in his Cork Fauna, gives the following note : — 
“ T. Pelamys, Linn, (sp.) (?)Bonito. My friend, Dr. Bullen, informs me 
that he saw and examined an individual of this species, which Avas taken at 
Kinsale, some years since.” 
In June, 1850, 1 saw a fine specimen of this fish in Mr. Yarrell’s collec- 
tion, sent to him by Mr. Bennett, from the South of Ireland, which was 
thus noticed in the Cork Constitution of 1st Sept., 1849 : — 
“ A specimen of the Bonito, a tropical fish rarely found upon our shores, 
Avas taken, on Monday last, in the meshes of a salmon net at Bennett’s Court. 
It has been forwarded to Mr. Yarrell, from whose History of British Fishes the 
folloAving description has been adapted to the present subject, Avhich is a trifle 
larger than the one described in that work : — This specimen is 29f inches long ; 
21 inches round, close behind the pectoral fins ; head conical, ending in a point 
at the nose ; under-jaAv projecting ; teeth very small and close, like a file ; mouth 
small ; tongue flat and thin ; nostrils obscure — and in a depression ; gill-covers 
of two plates. Body round to the vent ; from thence tapering to the tail ; near 
the tail depressed ; eye elevated, round, near an inch in diameter; iris silvery ; 
from the nose to the pectoral fin 9f inches ; the fin pointed, 3 inches long, 
received into a groove, in which another inch or inch and half of this fin might 
have remained sunk — first dorsal fin 7| inches long, 4f inches high, lodged in a 
groove. The body is most solid opposite the second dorsal, Avhich fin and the 
anal are falcate ; weight, 1 9f lbs. ; colour, deep azure blue on the back, with 
