ClafsIV. GREATER DOG FISH. 8g 
The eyes were oblong, behind each a large ori- 
fice opening to the infide of the mouth. 
The teeth fmall, fharp, fmooth at their fides, 
ftrait, and difpofed in four rows. 
Both the back fins were placed much ne and 
nearer-the tail than in common. 
The tail was finned, and below extended into a 
fharp angle. 
The color of the whole upper part of the body, 
and the fins, was brown, marked with numbers of 
large diftin& black fpots: fome parts of the fkin 
were tinged with red ; the belly was white. 
The whole was moft remarkably round, and had 
a ftrong {mell. 
We ak it is this fpecies which furnifhes what 
anglers call Indian gra/s, being the tendrils that iffue 
from each end of the purfe of this fith, which are 
much more delicate and flender than thofe of any 
other. ie. 
The female of this fpecies, and we believe of other 
fharks, is greatly fuperior in fize to the male; fo that 
in this refpect there is an agreement between the fifth 
and the birds of prey*. They bring about nine- 
teen young at a time: the fifhermen believe that 
they breed at all times of the year, as they fearce 
ever take any but what are with young. 
To this kind may be added, as a meer variety, 
the : 
Catulus maximus. Wil. Icth. 63. Raii fyn. pife. 22 
Squalus cinereus, pinnis ventralibus difcretiss Arted: yn. 97: 
Squalus ftellaris. Liz. /y/?. 399. : 
No. 145. Gronov. Zooph. 
* Vide Britih Zoology, wale 1 I 308 
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