PISCES THORACICI. SCOMBER. 
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The general colour, except the breast and abdomen which are white, is yellow of different shades. From 
the upper edge of the orbit a curve streak of brown runs obliquely to the ridge of the back, and seven or eight 
fascia; of the same colour cross the sides, broad and narrow alternately. All the fins are yellow; the lobes of 
the caudal tipped with black. 
The length of the subject seven inches; the breadth, three inches one-third. 
No. CL. 
Scomber pinnulis clorsalibus unilis undecem; cauda bifida; corpore lato-ovato , compresso , 
pectore alepidoto; linea laterali arcuata, carinata, postice recta , loricata. 
The Scomber with eleven united, dorsal pinnulas; a bifid tail. The body broad-ovate, 
compressed, the breast naked ; the lateral line arched and carinate, the hinder part 
straight and loricated. 
Called by the Natives Tallam Parah. 
7 2 
B. vii. D. 7. 22. P. 1 8. V. 6. A. 2. 18. C. 20. 
The body rather oval than ovate, compressed, and, except on the breast, covered with very minute scales. 
The head declivous, compressed, without scales; the front and vertex carinate. The mouth low, a little 
oblique; lips simple. Teeth conical, close, regular. Tongue and palate smooth. Eyes supreme, very large, 
orbicular. The opercula without scales. 
The trunk. The back and abdomen carinate; the sides thin, very much compressed. The branchiae, lateral 
line, and anus, as in the fish last described. 
The rays of the first dorsal fin slender, the three last very short; the second dorsal and second anal are 
composed of long rays and pinnulae, but more strongly than usual connected, the membrane having a fibrous 
margin. The protuberance at the roots of the connected pinnulae, were observed here, in some degree, at the 
base of the rays also. The first dorsal and first anal fin in grooves; the pectoral fin middle, falcate; the 
caudal bifid. 
The colour. The upper part of the head and back have a faint greenish cast, on a silver ground; the rest 
silvery, faintly reflecting various colours, the throat and abdomen excepted which are simply white. The fins 
glossy with a yellowish cast. 
The length , eight inches. 
REMARKS. 
This fish never appears at the English tables, but is salted by the natives, with other small fish, for the 
inland villages. 
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