128 WHIP RAY. Class IV. 



their spine, and to renew it annually; some- 

 times the new spine appears before the old one 

 drops off, and the Cornish call this species 

 Cardinal Trilost, or three tailed, when so cir- 

 cumstanced. 



10. Whip. Iaberete? Brazil: Marc- Rondel. pise i. 338. 



grave. 175. Will, ichth. 64. t. C.Q.app. t. 



£Raia Aquila ? R. corpore gla- 10. Raii Syn. pise. 23. 



bro, aculeo longo serrato in Eagle Ray ? Shaw Gen. Zool. 



cauda pennata. Gm. Lin. v. part ii. 284. tab. 141. ' 



1508. L'Aigle poisson? Block ichth. 



AETOf? Arist.hist. an. lib. v. c. iii. 54. tab. 81. 



5. Le Raie aigle ? De la Cepede 



Aquila? Plinii lib. ix. c. 24. Hist-- des Poissons, i. 104. 



Pastinaca, secunda species. tab. 6. Jig. 2. ?*] 



IM-R. Travis, surgeon at Scarborough, had, in 

 the summer of 1769, the tail of a Ray brought 

 to him by a fisherman of that town; he had 

 taken it in the sea off the coast, but flung away 

 the body. 

 Descrip- It was above three feet long, extremely 

 slender and taper, and destitute of a fin at the 

 end. I believe it to belong to the species called 



TION. 



* The editor has subjoined the above list of references from a 

 suspicion that the fish alluded to by Mr. Travis, may prove the 

 Eagle Ray, which grows to the length of fifteen feet, and is found 

 on the Baltic as well as on the Mediterranean sea. Ed. , 



