42 CHECK LIST OF PISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



25. Pristis pectinatus Latham. 

 Common Sawfish. 

 Marine. 



"West Indies and Florida; abundant in the Gulf of Mexico; ascending the lower Mississippi": 

 "occurs northward at least to Beaufort, North Carolina" (Jordan and Evermann) : once, 

 but long ago, recorded from coast of Nova Scotia (Denys, 1672).* 



26. Raja erinacea Mitchill. 

 Common Skate. 

 Marine. 



Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gaspe Bay, and Maritime Provinces, including Grand Manan, Bay of 

 Fundy: in the United States from the coast of Maine southward to Virginia. 



27. Raja ocellata Mitchill. 

 Big Skate. 



Marine. 



Maritime Provinces to the coast of the' State of New York. 



28. Raja fyllae Lutken. 

 Marine. 



Based upon a small specimen, some 8 inches in length, from Davis' Straits, Greenland (Lutken, 

 1887): given here owing to its occurrence in Davis Straits. 



29. Raja radiata Donovan. (Plate I, figure 2). 

 Starry Ray. 



Marine. 



Both sides of North Atlantic: on the American side seemingly recorded at least as far south 

 as Staten Island, State of New York (De Kay, 1842, as R. americana): Maritime Prov- 

 inces, including the Bay of Fundy: common on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia 

 (Cornish, 1901-2): on the eastern side of the Atlantic "inhabits the northern seas only, 

 extending from the British Isles to Iceland and Greenland, the coast of Norway, and 

 the Baltic as far as Scania" (Yarrell, 1859, on the authority of the Skandinaviens 

 Fiskar). 



30. Raja senta Garman. 

 Marine. 



Questionable on the coast of Labrador) - (Schmitt, 1904): Banks of Newfoundland southward 

 to Cape Cod. 



31. Raja lsevis Mitchill. 

 Barn-door Skate. 

 Marine. 



Maritime Provinces and Atlantic coast of United States south to coast of Florida. 



*"L'espadon est un poisson gros comme une vache, de six a huit piecls de longueur, qui va en diminuant vers 

 la queue; il a sur le nez un espadon, dont il prend le nom, qui est long d'environs trois piecls, large d'environs quatre 

 bons doigts; il y a de deux costez de cet espadon des pointes longues d'un pouee, de pareille distance les uns des 

 autres, et va etraissessant vers le bout; il ne plye point et est dur et fort roide." L'Histoire Naturelle, par Nicholas 

 Denys, Paris, 1672: quoted after Cox. 



■(■Queried by Kendall in his 'Check List of the Fishes recorded from the Labrador Peninsula".' 



