156 BEAUMARIS SHARK. Class IV. 



was of a lead color. The skin comparatively 

 smooth, being far less rough than that of the 

 lesser species of this genus. 



[In the third volume of the late edition of Mr. 

 Pennant's Tour in JVales, the Reverend Hugh 

 Davies has favored the public with some farther 

 observations, on the Beaumaris Shark, and a 

 comparative outline is given of that species, and 

 of the Porbeagle Shark. The Editor is happy 

 to have it in his power to subjoin the following 

 letter which he recently received from that able 

 naturalist : 



" Dear Sir, 



" Since I communicated some observations 

 " on the Beaumaris Shark, to the editor of Mr. 

 " Pennant's Tour in Wales, I am enabled to add 

 " a few more ; a fish of that species, having a 

 " few days ago (on the 9th of June 1811) strand- 

 " ed near Bangor ferry, on the Anglesey side 

 " the Menai, which gives it an additional claim 

 " to the trivial name which it bears in Doctor 

 " Shaw's General Zoology, Monensls. 



" This fish was nine feet six inches in length, 

 " that is, two feet and an half longer than that 



y. p. 351, falls into a singular error. He observes in a note, 

 '* In the British Zoology, the upper lobe is said to be ten, and 

 the lower thirteen inches long," omitting " one foot," which 

 precedes the " ten inches." Ed. 



