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, nearly straight in the male^ but elegantly waved 
j in the female. The sides and belly are pearly, 
I with iridescent reflections. The transverse bands 
; of the back have given rise to the name by 
which this beautiful fish is known. Mackerel 
[maquereau in French) is considered as having 
been derived from the Latin word macularius 
spotted. 
MACKEREL. 
The sudden appearance of immense hosts of 
fishes on the coast at regular periods, by which 
their pursuit and capture in sufficient numbers 
to constitute fisheries, are facilitated, was for- 
merly little understood; and the older writers 
had recourse to the hypothesis of long annual 
migrations of certain species, to account for their 
