152 PORBEAGLE SHARK. Class IV. 



end is blunt; the holes behind the eyes are 

 small ; the back is less flat than that of others 

 of this genus ; the first back fin is placed mid- 

 way above the pectoral and ventral fins ; the 

 pectoral fins are small ; the tail forked, but the 

 upper part is much the longest ; the teeth re- 

 semble those of a Ray, rough and sharp. The 

 color of the back and sides ash, and free from 

 spots ; the belly silvery. 



II.Porbea- Squalus cornubiensis. Sq. plica Goodenoicgh in Lin. Tr. Hi. 



GLE# longitudinali ad utrumque 80. tab. 15. 



caudaelatus. Gm. Lin. 1497. Le Squale long-nez. De la 



The Porbeagle. Borlase Corn- Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



wall, 265. Tab. 26. Shaw i. 216. tab. 2. jig. 3. ? 

 Gen. Zool. v. part ii. p. 

 349. 



J- HE figure of this fish, engraved after a draw- 

 ing by the Rev. Mr. Jago* is preserved in 

 Doctor Borlase' s Natural History of Cornwall. 

 As it is not attended with any account farther 



* This gentleman was minister of Loo, in Cornwall, and ap- 

 pears to have been well acquainted with the History of Fishes. 

 He communicated figures of several of the Cornish fishes, with a 

 brief account of each, to Petiver, at whose instance, as Doctor 

 Derham tells us, in the preface to Mr. Ray's Itineraries, p. Cq, 

 he added them to the Synopsis avium et piscium, p. 162. A few 

 others of his drawings are also preserved in the Natural History 

 of Cornwall, and seem to be executed with skill and accuracy. 



