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GALEFS. 



Thk form of tlie body tapering; spiracles or temporal orifices behind 

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



TOPER. 



WHITE HOUND. PENNY DOG, the young ones called miller 

 DOG, from their light grey appearance. 



Squalics Galeus, Artedi and LinnjKUS. 



Galeus AristoteUs, Jonston; p. 25. 



Ganis Galeus, Willougiibt; 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. 



Sqiiale Milandre, Lacepede. Rtsso; Tchthy., 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 than 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 c^^ attached to each young one, and not yet 

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

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

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