4530 THE ZooLoGisTt—JULY, 1875. 
of Kerry in Ireland, about a month since by a storm, you need not 
doubt the truth of it, for I have myself seen part of it, and have 
one of the Crowns by me to produce, I refer you to the paper for 
a relation of it; remember your duty both to God and man; be 
carefull in both, and the Lord direct you with all our Dear loves 
to you and all friends, concludes him that is your very affectionate 
loving Father. “ THoMAS CLEAR.” 
THE Monster DESCRIBED. 
“This Monster was taken at Dingle-I-cosh in the county of 
Kerry, being driven up by a great storm in the Month of October 
last 1673; having two heads, one great head (out of which sprung 
a little head two foot, or a yard from the great head) with two 
great eyes, each as big as a pewter dish, the length of it being 
about nineteen foot, bigger in the body than any horse, of the 
shape represented by this figure, having upon the great head ten 
horns, some of six some of eight or ten, one of eleven foot long, 
the biggest horns as big as a man’s Leg, the least as his wrist, 
which horns it threw from it on both sides; And to it again to 
defend it self having two of the ten horns plain, and smooth that 
were the biggest and middle horns, the other eight had one 
hundred Crowns a peece, placed by two and two on each of them, 
in all 800 crowns, each Crown having teeth, that tore anything 
that touched them, by shutting together the sharp teeth, being 
like the wheels of a watch, The Crowns were as big as a man’s 
thumb or something bigger, that a man might put his finger in the 
hollow part of them, and had in them something like a pearl or 
eye in the middle; over this Monster’s back was a mantle of a 
bright Red Colour, with a fringe round it, it hung down on both 
sides like a Carpet on a table, falling back on each side, and faced 
with white; the crowns and mantle were glorious to behold: This 
monster had not one bone about him, nor fins nor scales, or feet, 
but had a smooth skin like a man’s belly. It swoom by the 
lappits of the mantle; The little head it could dart forth a yard 
from the great, and draw it in again at plesure, being like a 
hawk’s beak and having in the little head two tongues by which it 
is thought it received all its nourishment: when it was dead and 
opened the liver wayed 30 pound. The man that took it came to 
Clonmel the 4th of this instant December, with two of the horns 
in a long box with the little head, and the figure of the fish drawn 
