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Habitat. — Monterey Bay. The specimen examined by us is from 
Soquel, Cal. 
Etymology: con and color, uniformly colored. 
This species attains a length of about 2J feet and a weight of 5 to 
8 pounds. It has only been seen in Monterey Bay, where but a limited 
number are taken each fall. Its flesh is of very fine flavor, and always 
brings a high price in the markets. They appear in September and 
disappear in November. 
12. SCOMBEROMORUS MACULATUS. 
(Spanish Mackerel.) 
Scomber maculatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., i, 426, pi. 6, f. 8, 1815 (New York). 
Cybium maculatum Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, 121, 1829 (after Mitchill); Agassiz, Spix, 
Pise. Brazil., 103, pi. 60, 1829 (Atlantic); Cuv. & Yah, viii, 181, 1831 (New 
York); Storer, Bost. Jour., iv, 179, 1842 (Lynn, Mass.); Ayres, Bost. Jour. 
Nat. Hist., iv, 261, 1842 (Brookhaven) ; DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 
108, pi. 73, f. 232, 1842 (Long Island) ; Storer, Synopsis, 92, 1846 ; Baird, Fishes 
N. J. Coast, 21, 1855 (Beaseley’s Point); Holbrook, “ Ichth. South Carolina, 
66, pi. 9, f. 1, 1855 ;” Giinther, ii, 372, 1860; Gunther, Fishes Central America, 
388, 1866 (Belize; no description); Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 146, pi. 13, f. 1, 
1867 (Lynn, Mass.) ; Gill, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm., 802, 1871-72 (name only) ; 
Baird, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm., 825, 1871-72 (Wood’s Holl; no description) ; 
Gill, Cat. Fish., E. Coast N. A., 24, 1873 (name only) ; Poey, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. 
Mus., 4, 1878 (after Cuv. & Yal.); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
375, 1875 (Albemarle Sound); Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 3, 1879 (Florida; 
no description) ; Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 128, 1879 (Pensacola) ; 
Goode & Bean, Fish., Essex Co., Mass., 15, 1879 (no description) ; Bean, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 89, 1880 (Washington Market; no description); Ryder, Bull. 
U. S. Fish. Comm., 25, 1881; Earll, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 416, 1884 (Mob- 
jack Bay); Smiley, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 74, 1885 (near Tampa Bay). 
Scomberomorus maculatus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 106, 1882 (Mazat- 
lan; no description); Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., 110, 1882 
(Panama ; no description); Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 237, 1882 
(Gulf of Mexico) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 268, 1882 (Pen- 
sacola; no description); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 594, 1882 
(Charleston, S. C. ; no description) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
625, 1882 (Panama; no description); Jordan & Gilbert, Syu. Fish. N. A., 
426, 1883; Bean, Cat. Fish. Ex. London, 51, 1883 (Charlotte Harbor; no 
description); Meek & Newland, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 232, 1884; 
Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 307, pi. 93, 1884 ; Jordan, Bull. U. S. Fish 
Comm., 78, 1884 (Key West; no description); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
373, 1885 (Mazatlan and Panama ; no description) ; Page, Bull. U. S. Fish 
Comm., 406, 1886; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 27, 1886 (Beaufort; no 
description); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 36, 1886 (Key West). 
Habitat. — Warm seas of America; north to Lynn, Mass.; south to 
Brazil, Panama, Mazatlan. The specimens examined by us are from Key 
West, Pensacola, and Washington Market. 
Etymology: maculatus , spotted. 
This is one of the most valuable of our food-fishes, appearing in schools 
on our Atlantic coast in greatly varying abundance. It reaches a weight 
of 8 or 9 pounds. It is found on the west coast of Mexico, where, ac- 
cording to Dr. Gilbert, it is held in low esteem as a food-fish. 
