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SCYLLIUM. 
depressed, short, and blunt; nostrils 
behind the eye- an anaf fin ^ temporal orifice 
fins. The gcL’rie name is iro^rT^ y 
ployed by Aristotle for those fi.fil > the common name em- 
covering of their shin rendered them^aSe foTandle."' 
nurse hound. 
BOUNCE AND CATFISH, 
Squalus eanicula, 
Catidiis major, 
ScylUum catulus, 
” siellaris, 
Le Sqiiale Boussefte, 
iJlSN.»ITg_ 
WiLtoucnBY AND Eat; p. 62. but the figure. 
B 4, does not convey a proper idea of the fish, 
Blemino; British Animals, p. 165. 
o/Eisso, Icth.. 
YAimELC; British Fishes, 2nd. ed., vol ii.. p 
493, but the figure is very imperfect as 8 
representation. 
'“v J a'; f *“ 12 ™. 
ri rv,’’ n confounds together this 
andtheOommonEoughHound. TheSaualm 
camcula. No. 112, La Boussette Unrle Z 
Bounce of Bloch, has ocellated spots’ am 
ertainly is not the Nurse Hound, probabh 
the Squalus stellaris of Authors. ^ ^ 
This species and the Rough Hound * n 
are classed as ground Sharks, because th mentioned 
near the bottom, where they seek their 
and rocky ground. Such of them as S 
ground are of a lighter colour in c f 
mature in fishes, by which ° 
corresponding with the ground which the'y 
food for ,hc orost port coosi.,, „( „ J„ J, 
