Description of a new British Ray. 



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Art. IV. Description of a species of Ray-jish, not hitherto included 

 in the British Fauna. By Jonathan Couch, Esq. F.L.S. &c. 



We owe it to Mr. Yarrell that we are able to decide what are, 

 and, by consequence, what are not, the British species of 

 Ray; a genus which, until the publication of the History of 

 British Fishes, had been in a state of great confusion. With 

 eight of the species described and figured in that work, I am 

 sufficiently acquainted to be able to decide that they are dif- 

 ferent to one which I have now to introduce to the notice of 

 English naturalists ; and my description and figure, will, I 

 hope, be sufficient to prove that it cannot be confounded with 

 any other, recognized as British : but whether it can be re- 

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