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rocky places, and preying on various Mollusca and 

 Crustacea : it is much less frequently taken than 

 the preceding species, though said to be more pro- 

 lific, producing not less than nineteen or twenty 

 young at a time. Its skin is ijsed in commerce for 

 the same purposes as those of other small Sharks^ 

 and the flesh is esteemed somewhat more eatable 

 than that of the former species. In Edwards's 

 figure of the young of this fish, the body is repre- 

 sented as barred across the back with several broad 

 brown bands. 



HOUND SHARK* 



Squalus Mustelus. S. subfuscuSf subtus albidus, dentibus pdrvis 



numerosis obtusis, pinnis pectoralibus brembus. 

 Brownish Shark, whitish beneath, with numerous small obtuse 



teeth, and short pectoral fins. 

 Squalus Mustelus. S. dentibus obtusis. Lin. Syst. Nat, 

 Smooth Hound. Penn. Brit. ZooL 



Habit slender : snout slightly sharpened^ and 

 lengthened : first dorsal fin large, and placed nearly 

 in the middle of the back : the second nearly oppo- 

 site the anal fin : tail shaped as in most others of 

 this tribe, or slightly bilobate, the lower lobe con- 

 tinued to some distance beneath : teeth very nu- 

 merous, small, slightly convex^ and set as in the 

 Rays : general colour of the animal greyish brown, 

 paler or white beneath : sometimes varies in being 

 marked above by numerous white spots. The 



