162 COMMON STURGEON. 



of Sharks in general, in being bifurcated or divided after the 

 manner of bony fishes. The colour a dull olive blue, the belly- 

 white. 



In common with a multitude of other things, the Sturgeon 

 has been an object of superstition. That quaint but learned 

 hunter out of such recondite matters, the antiquarian Aubrey, 

 records it as commonly reported, that before an heir of the 

 Clifton of Clifton, in Nottinghamshire, dies, a Sturgeon is 

 caught in the River Trent near that place. 



