8g W H I P R A Y. Class IV. 



3 ^ . Whip* laberete ? Brazil; Mangraijs, 175. 



MR.. 'Travis, furgeon at Scarborough, had, in 

 the fummer of 1769, the tail of a Ray 

 brought to him by a fifherman of that town : he 

 had taken it in the fea oft the coaft, but flung away 

 the body. 



It was above three feet long, extremely flender 

 and taper, and deftiture of a fin at the end. I be- 

 lieve it to belong to the fpecies called by the BraJI' 

 Hans laberete ; and that it is likevvife • found in 

 the Sicilian feas. I once received the tail of one 

 from that ifland, correfponding with the defcrip» 

 tion Mr. Travis gzvt: I mufb alfo add, that it was 

 entirely covered with hard obtufe tubercles. 



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