The food and game fishes of New York: . the dorsal and anal fins not divided into two separateparts. 90. Yellow Mackerel {Cdrnux hippos Linneeus). Scombi-r Iiippos LiXN-t;us, Syst. Nat. ed., XII, 1, 494, 1766, Charleston, South cara/igus Cuvikr & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 91, 1S33 ; GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 448, defensor , N. V. Fauna, Fishes, 120, pi. 24, fig. 72, 1842 ; Holbrook, Ichth. S. C., 87, 111. 12, fig. I, ^^iis Iiifpos (_;ii,i., Iroc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 433, 1862 ; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., XI, 16, 1879.
The food and game fishes of New York: . the dorsal and anal fins not divided into two separateparts. 90. Yellow Mackerel {Cdrnux hippos Linneeus). Scombi-r Iiippos LiXN-t;us, Syst. Nat. ed., XII, 1, 494, 1766, Charleston, South cara/igus Cuvikr & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 91, 1S33 ; GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 448, defensor , N. V. Fauna, Fishes, 120, pi. 24, fig. 72, 1842 ; Holbrook, Ichth. S. C., 87, 111. 12, fig. I, ^^iis Iiifpos (_;ii,i., Iroc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 433, 1862 ; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., XI, 16, hippiis Jorijan & Gilbek r, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 437, 1883 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 200, hippos Bean, Bull. F. C.,VII, 139, t888; B\dl. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 362, 1897 ; 52d Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus., 103, 1900 ; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 920, 1896, pi. CXLI, fig. 387, 1900 ; Mearns, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 318, 1898 ; Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C, XVII, 98, YELLOW mackerel. Body oblong, the anterior profile very strongly arched. The depth is containedtwo and one-half times in the length. Head large and deep, its length beingcontained three and one-half times in that of the body; mouth large, low ; lowerjaw prominent, maxillary extending to nearly opposite posterior border of eye, twoand one-third in head; teeth in upper jaw in a broad villiform band, an outerseries of large, wide-set, conical teeth, teeth of lower jaw in one row, a distinctcanine on each side of symphysis; villiform teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids,and tongue ; lateral line with a wide arch, its length one and one-third in straightpart, the angle under fifth dorsal ray, plates not covering all of the straight part, 374 SEVENTH REPOKr OK IIIK KORKST, I-ISII AND GAME COMMISSION, lateral line (scutes) about 30; dorsal spines short, rather stout; gill rakers stout,rather loni,, 15 below angle; occipital keel sharp; eye not very large; pectoralfal
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