88 W H I P R A Y. Class IV. 



j | . Whit. Iaberete ? Br a z i l : Marcgrave. 175. 



MR. Travis, furgeon at Scarborough, had, in 

 the fummer of 1769, the tail of a Ray 

 brought to him by a fifherman of that town : he 

 had taken it in the fea off the coaft, but flung away 

 the body. 



It was above three feet long, extremely flender 

 and taper, and deftitute of a fin at the end. I be- 

 lieve it to belong to the fpecies called by the Brafi- 

 lians Iaberete ; and that it is likewife found in 

 the Sicilian feas. I once received the tail of one 

 from that ifland, correfponding with the defcrip- 

 tion Mr. Travis gave: I muft alfo add, that it was 

 entirely covered with hard obtufe tubercles. 



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