NI'RSE IIOUN'I). 



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on a single occasion it lias been met with in Scandi- 

 navian waters. In November, ISTf), ^Ialm received a 

 female 622 mm. long that had been taken on a Had- 

 dock-line north-west of Hallo, in the central portion 

 (if the island-belt of Bohusliln. The i'a\ourit(' haunts 

 of the Nurse Hound are the deepest algal /ones or 



tebrates, but also of fishes. As mentioned above, it takes 

 the bait of long-lines set for Haddock. 



From April to September ripe egg-ca])sules have 

 been found in the uterine dilatations of the female. 

 The development of the foetus in the egg after deposi- 

 tion is said to take nine months. 



Fig. 336. Nurse Hound (•'ici/lliorliiiini <:tilhin^), (f. ' ., nat. size. From Nice. Gioi.ioi.i. 



lower levels, on a stony or rocky bottom; its coloration 

 too indicates that it does not usually frequent the re- 

 gion of the green algaj, even if the females repair 

 thither, as Thompson states, to attach their egg-capsules 

 to LambiarHB. Its food is, no doubt, the ordinary diet 

 of the small Sharks, consisting principalh- of inver- 



The skin of the Nurse Hound is considered to be 

 one of the best polishers — it bites marble and iron — 

 and after being smoothed it is employed in cover- 

 ing the hilts of sabres and small-swords. Its flesh 

 is eaten freely by the poor of Southern Europe. In 

 Scandinavia its oidv value is that of rarit\-. 



