82 SKA T E. CiASsIV. 



V. Body broad, flat, and thin. 



Five apertures on each fide placed beneath 

 Mouth fituated quite below. 



With {harp teeth, 



30. Skate, Bar); > Arift. hift. an. Lib, If^h. 6g. Raiijyn, pifc. 2^, 



I. c. 5. Lib, VI. c, lo. Raia Batis. Lin.fyft, 395. 



Oppian Halieut. I. 103. Raia varia, dorfo medio gla- 



Raia undulata five cinerea. bro, unico aculeorum or- 



Rondel. 346. Gefner pi/c, din^ in C2L\idi2L. Arted. Jynon» 



791. 102. 



The Skate, or Flaire. Wil. Gromv, Zooph. No. 157. 



Size. ^T^HIS fpecies is the thinned in proportion to 

 JL its bulk of any of the genus, and alfo the 

 largeft, fome weighing near two hundred pounds. 

 Descrxf. The nofe, though not long, is fharp pointed j 

 above the eyes is a fet of fhort fpines : the whol 

 upper part of that we examined was of a pale 

 brown. Mr. Ray fays, Ibme he faw were ftrcak- 

 ed with black : the lower part is white, marked 

 with great numbers of minute black fpots. The 

 jaws were covered with fmall granulated but fharp- 

 pointed teeth. 



The tail is of a moderate length : near the 

 end are two fins : along the top of it is one row of 

 fpines, and on the edges are irregularly difperfed 



a few 



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