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country fmiths on purpofe to catch them ; they breath through holes 
or pipes on each fide betwixt the mouth and the pe&oral fins, not 
through gills. 
Of the fhark kind (befides others'" which have been reckoned by 
Mr. Ray, who came to Penzance on purpofe to colled: and examine 
the forts of our Cornilh fea-fifh) we have the fea-fox, Vulpecula , 
or Simla marina of authors ; this fhark we call the Threfher, from 
the motion of its long fox -like tail with which it ftrikes or threfhes 
its larger and lefs agile enemy the grampus, whenever it reaches to 
the furface of the water to breathe. This engagement lafts feveral 
hours as I have been informed by an eye-witnefs *. 
We have alfo another fhark, which we call the Porbeagle, of 
which I give an icon Plate xxvi. Fig. iv. from Mr. Jago, it being 
very different in fhape from any in Willughby, or any other Ichthy- 
ologift I have examined. 
Of the flat and broad, cartilaginous and fpinous, befldes thesECT.iv. 
more common fkates and flaires, which we call rays, we have one Flatfilh ’ 
in Cornwall called the Cardinal Trilofl: m , or three-tailed ray ; fe- br ° ad ’ &C 
condly, a Britton or Burton fkate without any fpines, excepting 
only a few on its tail ; the Raia oxyrinchos laevis of Jago j Ray, 
page 165. 
The monk or angel-fifh, (otherwife termed the Mermaid-fifh, as 
Artedi fays) the Squatina Rondeletii , page 367; Ray, page 26; of 
which uncommon fifh, of a middle nature, partaking both of the 
dog-fifh and ray, I add the icon, Plate xxvi. Fig. v. Two of 
thefe fifhes, one four feet feven inches long, the other fmall, were 
taken in a tramel-net at Penzance, July 11, 1757. That here 
defcribed is of a middle fize, the belly white, the back of the co- 
lour of a foie, without ftreaks of white, as in a drawing I have 
feen of Mr. Jago, and without the Linea afpera in the middle of 
the back, as in Rondeletius, lib. xii. chap. xxi. and Mr. Ray, 
page 27. 
Among the papers of Mr. Jago, I met with an accurate drawing 
of the Rana pifcatrix of Rondeletius, Willughby, and Ray, &?c. 
the Lophius ore cirrofo of Aredi, (G. Pifc. 41) which, becaufe it is 
little known, and not faithfully reprefented in the books I have feen, 
I have given the icon of, Plate xxvi 1. Fig. m. adjufted to the fcale 
of the dolphin, & c. with the exaft number of the appendixes at 
the edges, and ftiffenings of the pectoral fins according to Jago. 
But very different is the Rana pifcatrix (Anglice frog-fifh, or fea- 
k The tope, picked-dog, fmooth or unprickly 1 The Reverend Mr. Dyer, Vicar of St. Clare, 
hound, bounce, alias greater cat-filh, in theCornifh, m In the Cornifh language fignifying three 
morgi, that is, fea-dog, &c. Ray, Syn. page 20. tails. 
Y y y devil) 
