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SHORT-FINNED TUNNY. 
Thynnus hraehypterus, Ouvieb. 
“ “ Gukthee; Catalogue Br. Museum, 
vol. ii, p. 363. 
Pelamys vera, RoNDEtETitrs; p. 245; but he supposes 
it au early condition of the Tunny; 
and it is to be observed that it is 
not recognised by Dr. Gulia, in his 
“Tentamen, or Eoportorio of tho 
Fishes of Malta,” at least as being 
distinct from tho ThyntMs Brevi- 
piivnis of the same author. 
This fisli is a native of the Mediterranean, where perhaps it 
is equally common with the Tunny, with which it appears to 
have been confounded until distinguished by the discriminating 
examination of Baron Cuvier. But it appears to be less a 
wanderer into the ocean than that tish, and there is no lecord 
of its having been caught in the British seas until the summer 
of the present year, 1865; when an example was discovered 
among the numbers of small Mackarel taken near Mevagissey, 
in Cornwall, in the drift-nets, and sent to me by Mr. Matthias 
Dunn, an intelligent fisherman of that place. This first example 
was obtained on the 18tli. of August, and it is worthy of notice 
that within a week afterwards a specimen was taken in the 
same manner by a fisherman of Polperro ; and in the first week 
in September three other examples were sent to me from 
Mevagissey; thus amounting to five examples in the course of 
a month within a limited extent of our south coast; which 
circumstance appears to shew that they have been bred at no 
great distance from our shores. The size of these examples also 
goes far to prove the same fact, as the first measured only six 
inches from the snout to the fork of the tail, and the three 
last had only reached the length of eight inches. Our figure 
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