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I^OUGII HOUND. 



LESSER SPOTTED DOGFISH. iiowiiouND, thc ancicnt 

 prouuiiciation of Rough, morgiii. 



Squalus cafulus, 

 Catitlus minor, 

 " aristotelis, 



Scyllium catulus, 



Squale roussette. 



Ltnnxus. 



WlLLOUGIIBY AND RaY; Tab. B. 4. 



JoNSTON, Article 2, Punctum 2. 



Donovan's Figures of British Fishes, No. 65. 



Fleming's Br. Animals, p. ]65, but this author 



is confused in his account of these fishes. 

 Lacepede. Poissons; vol. ii. 

 Jenyns' Manual, p. 495. 

 Yarkell's British Fishes, 2nd. ed., vol. ii., 



p. 487. 

 Blocu's Figures; Squalus catulus, Lesser 



Bough Hound, No. 114, a bad figure, probably 



taken, as also that of the Nurse Hound, 



from a badly-dried skin. 



This species has much the same habits as the Nurse Hound, 

 in keeping near the bottom, and prowling about in search of 

 crustaceous animals and small fishes; but it is more frequently 

 caught with the line, and that too at all seasons, as well as 

 at a less depth of water. I have found it ready to shed its 

 purses in April, but the more usual time is in summer and 

 autumn, when it is common to find them in pairs in the body 

 of the fisli; and also eggs before their full development in 

 considerable numbers. These purses are much smaller than 

 those of the Nurse Hound, less firm in texture, of a different 

 shape and a pale yellow colour; with slender tendrils at the 

 corners, that at first may be stretched out to the lenijth of a 

 couple of feet. These, as in the case of the Nurse Hound, 

 serve thc purpose of mooring the egg-cate to some fixed ob- 

 ject; and to ensure its safety thc fish at first passes witli it 



