Tail. 
86 SE. A OR OxXe | aaa 
Vite hes Ss ewan nO. ie 
Arwmeg ? Arif. Hift. an. lib. Cercus Cali opufe. 110. 
ix.¢.37- <slian Var. Hiff. Sea Fox, or Ape. Wil. Icth. 543 
TRAN e513) Raii fyn. pifc. 20. 
Oppian Halieut.1. 381. ii1. 144. Squalus cauda iodereie quart 
Vulpes Phin. lib. ix. ¢. 43. ipfum corpus. Aried. fyn. 96. 
Singede mer. Bex. 88. Sea Fox. Threfher. Borla/fe 
Vulpes marina. Rondel. 337. Cornwall. 265. 
Gefner pife. 1045. 
HIS fith is moft remarkable for the great 
length of the tail: the whole meafure of that 
we had an opportunity of examining, was thirteen 
feet, of which the tail alone was more than fix, the 
upper part extending greatly beyond the lower, al- 
moft in a ftrait line. 
The body was round and fhort : the nofe fhort but 
fharp pointed: the eyes large, and placed imme- 
diately over the corners of the mouth, which was 
{mall, and placed not very diftant from the end of 
the nofe. 
The teeth are fmall for the fize of the fifh, and 
placed in three rows. 
The back was afh-color ; the belly white. 
The antients ftyled this fifh Aawmef, and Vulpes; 
from its fuppofed cunning. They believed, that 
when it had the misfortune to have taken a bait, it 
fwallowed the hook till it got at the cord, which it 
bit off, and fo efcaped. 
They are fometimes taken in our feas, and have 
heen send to be the fith called the Threfher, 
from. 
