128 LIST OF FISH. 



behind one another, and forming in the middle a row, conformable 

 with the border, transverse crowns. On the sides smaller four-cor- 

 nered, pavement-like pieces, which catch in the spaces of the middle 

 crowns. The dental surface of the upper-jaw is convex from before, 

 backwards and from side to side ; that of the under-jaw flat, scarcely 

 concave, neither occupy the whole breadth of the jaw. 



Myliobatis, Dum. Zool. Anal. 1806. Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 400. 



Mull, v Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 90, 1838. PlagiosL 176. 



Swains. Cab. Ci/cl. ii. 319. 

 -Etobatus aut R. aquila:, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 121, 1816. 

 Leiobatus, Rafin. Caratt. 93, 1810. 



Spines sometimes numerous, see Freyeinet, Zool. t. 42. f. 3, with 

 five spines. 



1. Myliobatis aqcila. 



Mvliobatis aquila, Risso, Hist. Nat. iii. 162. Agassi:, iii. t. D, f. 



9. (teeth). Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 400. Mull. % Henle, 



Plag. 1 : 

 Aquila marina, Belon. 97. {Copied in Gesner. 87 

 Aquila, Salv. 147, f. 50. (Copied in Willoughby, 2). Jonst. is. 



9. Ruysch, Thes. ix. 9. Aldror. 439, 440. Brunnich, 3, n. 



4. Duhamel, sect. ix. pi. 10. 

 Aquilone, Columna, de Aquat. 2. 

 Raja aquila, Linn. Gmel. 1508, n. 6. Enqjcl. f. 10. Blovh. 



meid. 360. Risso, Ichth. 9. Blainv. Faun. Fr. 38, t. 7. 

 Eagle Ray, Shaw, Gen. Zool. 141. (Copied from Willoughby). 



Yarr. ii. 445. 

 Myliobatis bovina. G pte, 336, pi. 26, f. 1. 



Myliobate aigle, Diet. Sri. Nat. 24. 

 Mvliobatis aquila. Risso, Hist. Nat. iii. 162. Agassis, iii. t. D. f. 



9, (teeth). Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 400. 

 Whip Bay, Jenyns, Brit. An. 519. 

 Myliobatis noctula, Bonap. fasc. 2. 

 Pastinaca marina, Matthiol. 325. 



Hab. — Mediterranean, Cape. 



a. Stuffed. ? 



b. Stuffed. 



c. In spirits. (Bleached). 



d. In spirit-. Young. Madeira. 



e. Inspirits. Head. Madeira. 



