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SCOMBEEESOX. 
Both jaws slender, and extended to considerable length; furnished 
with slender teeth. Scales on the body, and a line of them of 
keeled structure along each side of the belly. Several separate small 
fins above and below between the dorsal and anal fins and the tail. 
Abdominal hshes. 
SKIPPER. 
SAURY. SKOPSTER. MACKAREL GARRICK. HALIOU. 
Acws minor, 
Sawrns acuhus similis, 
Lacertus vel Samrus, 
Esox sauriis, 
Seombereaox satmis, 
t( (( 
ff ft 
“ Oamperii, 
Belon'e satirm, 
JoNSTON; Table 15, f. 15. 
B.OIfDELETIUS. 
Willoughby; p. 232. 
Turton’s Linnaeus. Donovan; pi. 116. 
OUVIEE. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 184. 
Yabeell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 446. 
Eisso. Bloch. Schneider; pi. 78, 2. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 419. 
This is a migratory fish, which comes to our coasts at the 
beginning of summer, and my earliest notes of its appearance, 
from the information of fishermen at the opening of the British 
Channel, are between the first iveek in June and the end of 
that month; and soon afterwards they spread themselves in 
companies round the United Kingdom, up to the most northern 
districts, where, in calm weather, they may be seen to afford a 
considerable degree of amusement to an observer. It may 
hapjien that the first appearance of this fish is announced by 
its presence in the shallow water of some of our harbours, in 
the pools of which it may be left by the ebbing tide, and it 
has been sent, with an inquiry as to its name and rarity, from 
a portion of a river so high that the water was fresh; but 
