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GALEUS. 



The form of the body tapering; spiracles or temporal orifices behind 

 the eyes; the gill openings moderate; an anal fin. Teeth sharp. 



TOPER. 



WHITE HOUND. PENNY DOG, the yOUllg OnCS Called MILLER 



DOG, from their light grey appearance- 



Squalus Galetis, Artedi and Linn^us. 



Oaleus Aristotelis, Jonston; p. 25. 



Canis Golem, Willoughby; p. 51, tab. b. 6, but the 



tail is badly expressed. 



Galeus vulgaris, Fleming; Br. An., p. 165. 



" " Jenyns; Manual, p. 501. 



*' " Yarrell ; British Fishes, vol. ii, p. 509. 



Sqnale Milandre, Lacepede. Risso; Ichthy., p. 32. 



This is a common and rapacious fish, devouring any living 

 thing it is able to overcome; but it appears to swim lower in 

 the water 1;lian the Blue Shark and Porbeagle, as few complaints 

 are heard of the injury it inflicts on the fishermen's nets. 



The young are produced in summer, and I have found them 

 well developed so early as in May. The whole brood is usually 

 produced at one birth; although I have occasionally met with 

 an instance where a few eggs have been ready to take the place 

 of a large number that were ready for exclusion. On examining 

 a large female, I found twenty-one young ones, all of one size, 

 about a foot in length; ten in one receptacle, and eleven in 

 the other. The egg attached to each young one, and not yet 

 absorbed, was scarcely an inch in diameter, pear-shajjed, with 

 a funis about six inches in length. The largest number of 

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