^ Mr. Couch on the Natural History of Fishes, ^c. 



much elevated. This fish seems to resemble the Basking 

 Shark, but differs from it in the form of the head and 

 situation of the eye. 



ACCIPENSER. 



Common Sturgeon, A. Sturio. — Of an individual taken in a 

 trammel-net near this place, the fishermen observed that it 

 threw up several large bubbles of air as they raised it from 

 the bottom ; this I have no doubt came from the swimming- 

 bladder ; for on examination I found it empty ; and the 

 discharge appears to have been intended to prevent its 

 ascent ; it made no other effort to escape. 



Polperro, Cornwall. JONATHAN CouCH. 



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