EAGLE RAY 



591 



CHONDTtOPTERYGlI. 



UAIIDA:. 



THE EAGLE RAY. 



THE WHIP RAY. MILLER. 



Myliobatis aquila, Aigle de mer, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 401. 



Aquila Pellonii, WILLUGHBY, p. 64, C. 2. 



Ruia aquila, LINN;EUS. BLOCK, pt. iii. pi. 81. 



,, ,, Whip Kay, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 128. 



,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 519. 



,, ,, BLAINV. Faun. Franc, p. 38. 



Myliobatis aquila BONAP. ,, Ital. fasc. 2. 



MYLIOBATIS. Generic Characters. Head partly disengaged from the pec- 

 toral fins; teeth flat; the central plates much larger than those which are 

 lateral ; pectoral fins wing-like ; the tail armed with one fin upon the root, 

 behind that a serrated spine, as in the last genus Trygon. 



PENNANT, in his British Zoology, states that Mr. Tra- 

 vis, surgeon at Scarborough, had the tail of a Ray brought 

 to him by a fisherman of that town : he had taken it in 



