Class IV. SHAGREEN RAY. 



fpots : the lower part is white. This, as well as 

 molt other fpecies of Rays, vary a little in color, 

 according to age. 



This grows to a fize equal to the Skate. It 

 is common at Scarborough, where it is called the 

 White Hans, or Gullet. 



1MET with this fpecies at Scarborough, where 34 . Shag. 

 it is called the French Ray. REEN ' 



It encreafes to the fize of the Skate *, is fond of 

 Launces, or Sandeels, which it takes greedily as a 

 bait. 



The form is narrower than that of the common 

 kinds : the nofe long and very fharp : pupil of the 

 eye, fapphirine : on the nofe are two fhort rows of 

 fpines : on the corner of the eyes another of a 

 femicircular form : on the tail are two rows, con- 

 tinued a little up the back, fmall, (lender, and 

 very fharp : along the fides of the tail is a row of 

 minute fpines, intermixed with innumerable little 

 fpiculte. The upper part of the body is of a cine- 

 reous brown, covered clofely with minute fhagreen- 

 like tubercles, refembling the fkin of the dog-fifli : 

 the under fide of the body is white : from the nofe 

 to the beginning of the pedtoral fins is a tubercu- 

 Jated fpace. 



The teeth (lender, and fharp as needles. 



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