NUllSK HOUND. 



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ail iuilictioii, by a\1iI(1i their surface is torn with lacerated 

 wounds. 



This species becomes more scarce as we proceed northward 

 in the ]?ritish Islands. 



This fish grows to the length of four or five feet. An ex- 

 ample, three feet nine inches long, measured thirteen inches 

 in girth behind the pectoral fins. The head depressed, blunt, 

 rounded ' in front; eyes two inches from the front, three 

 inches asunder, their figure a narrow oval, with a longi- 

 tudinal fold below each of them ; temporal orifice round, 

 below the line of the posterior angle of the eye. The body 

 lengthened posteriorly, with the tail extended in a direct line 

 with its length. Pectoral fins low on the body, and wide. 

 From the snout to the anterior dorsal fin twenty-two inches, 

 to the second dorsal two feet five inches and a half; neither 

 of them large. Anal fin opposite to the space between the 

 dorsals; the abdominal fins anterior to the first dorsal. Caudal 

 fin ending square. Nostrils an inch and a half from the snout, 

 near the margin, the lobe irregularly folded; the mouth cir- 

 cular, an inch and a half from the snout; teeth sharp, and 

 in several rows. Colour dusky red, with numerous large dark 

 spots; below white. The skin very rough from spiculse, the 

 points of which are directed backward. 



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