EAGLE RAY, 



445 



CHONDROPTERYGII. 



R All DM. 



THE EAGLE RAY. 



THE WHIP RAY. MILLER. 



Myliobatis aquila, Aigle de mer, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p, 401. 



Aquila Bellonii, WILLUGHBY, p. 64, C. 2. 



jRaia aquila, LINNJEUS. BLOCK, pt. iii. pi. 81. 



Whip Ray, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 128. 



,, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 519. 



Generic Characters. Head partly disengaged from the pectoral fins ; teeth 

 flat ; the central plates much larger than those which are lateral ; pectoral fins 

 wing-like ; the tail armed with a serrated spine, as in the last genus Trygon. 



PENNANT, in his British Zoology, states that Mr. Tra- 

 vis, surgeon at Scarborough, had the tail of a Ray brought 

 to him by a fisherman of that town : he had taken it in 



