DOTTED MACKAEEL. 
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length than the old Mackarel, the measurement being two and 
ree fourths deep, by fifteen seven sixteenths, or as one to 
and a half; the one three and one fourth by fifteen and 
ve eighths, or not q^uite one in five; and this is remarkable, 
3'S your example was a female, and the roe large, as the time 
C Illy 6th.,) would of itself indicate. The mouth in your fish 
^Ppears to be smaller, the angle of the gape not placed so far 
't'u ’ superior maxillary bone is shorter and broader. 
® posterior edge of the preoperculum is more rounded, — 
m our Mackarel the lower two thirds of this edge is almost 
^ straight and perpendicular line; the anterior portion of the 
•deral line appears to be more strongly marked.” To this 
“lay be added, that the adult Common Mackarel is distinguished 
I'om Its younger condition by a dusky mottled line, which 
^ins along the side and separates the lateral line from the 
of this sort was found in this fish, though of 
^ t growth and large with spawn. In reply to my suggestion 
^ name, Mr. Yarrell said, '‘Scomber punctatm would be an 
o'xccllent name for it, as referring at once to its most obvious 
external markings.” 
