BONITO. 
99 
No air bladder; the muscle red, and greatly charged with blood. 
It was a female, full of roe in July. 
Another example offered some differences that are worthy of 
notice. — The length was a foot and seven inches, and the girth 
^ foot. The marking of the corset was not exactly as in the 
former, and there were only three lines on one side, the dark 
colour of the back being extended to include the uppermost 
line. The first dorsal fin was altogether concealed in the chink ; 
the two first rays of eq^ual length, and close together, fifteen 
in all; the first ray white. The tongue of a remarkable foim, 
being in front flat and firm, turned up at the middle of the 
side, and raised into a triangle, which sloped away inward, as 
if intended to guide backward, as in a gutter, what passed 
over it; and too firm to be moveable. 
