Class IV. SHAGREENRAY. 87 



fpots : the lower part is white. This, as well as 

 mod other fpecies of Rays, vary a little in color. 



according to age. 



REEN, 



This grows to a fize equal to the Skate. It 

 is common at Scarborough^ where it is called the 

 JVhite Hans^ or Gullet. 



1MET with this fpecies at Scarborough^ where 34. Sha<5. 

 it is called the French Ray. 



It encreafes to the fize of the Skate •, is fond of 

 LaunceSy or Sandeels, which it takes greedily as a 

 bait. • 



The form is narrower than that of the common 

 kinds : the nofe long and very fharp : pupil of the 

 eye, fapphirine : on the nofe are two fhort rows of 

 fpines : on the corner of the eyes another of a 

 femicircular form : on the tail are two rows, con- 

 tinued a little up the back, fmall, flender, and 

 very Iharp : along the fides of the tail is a row of 

 minute fpines, intermixed with innumerable little 

 fpiculte. The upper part of the body is of a cine- 

 reous brown, covered clofely with minute (hagreen- 

 like tubercles, refembiing the fkin of the dog-fifli : 

 the under fide of the body is white : from the nofe 

 to the beginning of the peroral fins is a tubercu- 

 iated fpace. 



The teeth flender, and fharp as needles. 



G 4 laberete ? 



