SHARK, , 



known to entangle Its fnout or horns in the anchor of a {loop, and run 

 with it two leagues againft the tide. This is the fame with the Sea 

 Duvvil of Nieuhoff, obferved by him in the Eaji Indian feas *. 



Br. Zool. iii. 98. Genus VL VI. SHARK, 



Br. Zool. iii. N'^42. — Laiufon, 15;. — Catejby App. xxxii. S$. Wnirt. 



O U N D on all the coafts of North Amerkai Place. 



Squalus Tiburo, Lin. 399. ' 67. Arrow* 



Tiburonis, minor fpecies, Marcgra-ve, iSi.—fFil. Icth, 55. headsd. 



^T^ HIS fpecies may be readily kpown by the ftiape of its head, 

 which is triangular, like the head of an arrow, or heart-fliaped, 

 or as Law/on calls it, Jhovel-nojed. We give it on his authority. It is 

 very probably the fame filh, which is frequent in the Brafi'lian feas, thofc 

 of the Antilles, and may eafily extend to Carolina. 



The Brafilians call it Papana: it has three rows of fmall teeth, with 

 which it bites and mangles in a dreadful manner f. Pijo praifes it as a 

 delicate food. 



Law/on fpeaks of a lefler fpecies of Shark, which is called Dog Fifi ; 

 but from his account we are unable to determine which kind is 

 intended, 



Squalus priflis, Lin. ip\.—Catejhy, App. xxxii, 68. Saw* 



CH. With two dorfal fins and an anal: twolioles on the top of the 



head for the difcharge of water : lips covered with rough hard tu- 



bera inftead of teeth : at the end of the nofe is a flat bone, in fome five 



feet long, and armed on each fide with twenty-four long, ftrong, and 



• Churchill's Coll. ii. 350.— 7?7/. Icth. App. 5. f Tifo, Hifl. Nat. 50. 



Q^ iharp* 



