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SPANISH MACKAREL. 
Scomber colias, 
“ maculatus, 
ii <( 
ff a 
tt u 
CuviEU. Eisso. 
Loudon ; Magazine of Nat. Hist., 
vol. V, p. 22. 
Jbnyns; Manual, p. 361. 
Yareell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 148. 
Gunthbej Catalogue of Br. Museum, 
vol. ii, p. 361. 
There appears much reason for believing that this species 
of Mackarel is the same with a fish described by Rondeletius, 
under the name of Colias, and of which as a principal character 
he remarks that its back is marked with lines, as in the Common 
Mackarel; but with the difference, that they are much less 
numerous, and do not descend so far towards the lateral line; 
and also that there are many dark spots, which he leaves 
uncertain whether they are on the back along or among the 
waved lines, or below on the belly. Willoughby describes the 
same fish, (p. 182;) but without appearing to copy he only 
translates the words of Eondeletius, with the understanding, 
however, that the spots are on the back in company with the 
lines ; although in both these writers the figures are represented 
as without any spots. It is Eisso who adds the mention of 
brown spots along the belly. This want of precision in the 
above-mentioned authors may leave it in doubt whether the 
fish mentioned by them be the same with that one called by 
Cornish fishermen the Spanish Mackarel, or another which we 
shall introduce to the reader as the Dotted Mackarel; but the 
mention of waved lines on the back causes us to lean to the 
former opinion, which is the same that has been adopted 
generally by naturalists. Eondeletius informs us he had seen 
it on the coast of France, but that it was more common in 
Spain; a circumstance which may account for the name by 
