DUSKY SHARK. SSQ 



carried on women's backs fourteen or sixteen miles 

 up the country, and either sold or exchanged for 

 various necessaries. 



Molina, in his Natural History of Chili, describes 

 what appears to be a variety of this species, in 

 which the body is marked by ocellated spots, and 

 the spines of the dorsal fins recurved at the tip. 



DUSKY SHARK. 



Squalus Spinax. S. fuscus, subtus nigricans, pinnis dorsalihus 

 spinosis. 



Brown Sharks blackish beneath^ with spiny dorsal fins. 

 Squalus Spinax. S. subius nigricans. Lin, Gmel. 

 Sagre. Broussonet. act. Paris. 178O. 

 Galeus Acanthias sire Spinax fuscus. Will, p. 5f, 



Greatly allied to the preceding, with which it 

 has been often confounded ; but differs in being of 

 a much darker colour, with the singular circum- 

 stance of the abdomen being still darker than the 

 upper parts, or nearly black : back broader than in 

 the preceding fish : dorsal fin spined in the same 

 manner. Native of the European seas. 



