NURSE HOUND. 
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an infliction, by ■which their surface is torn with lacerated 
wounds. 
This species becomes more scarce as we proceed northward 
in the British Islands. 
This fish grows to the length of four or five feet. An ex- 
ample, three feet nine inches long, measured thirteen inches 
in girth behind the pectoral fins. The head depressed, blunt, 
rounded in front; eyes two inches from the front, three 
inches asunder, their figure a narrow oval, with a longi- 
^dinal fold below each of them; temporal orifice round, 
below the line of the posterior angle of the eye. The body 
engthened posteriorly, with the tail extended in a direct line 
wit its length. Pectoral fins low on the body, and wide. 
rom the snout to the anterior dorsal fin twenty-two inches, 
to the second dorsal two feet five inches and a half; neither 
0 them large. Anal fin opposite to the space between the 
dorsals; the abdominal fins anterior to the first dorsal. Caudal 
n en(hng square. Nostrils an inch and a half from the snout, 
near t e margin, the lobe irregularly folded; the mouth cir- 
cular, an inch and a half from the snout; teeth sharp, and 
in severa rows. Colour dusty red, with numerous large dark 
spots; below white. The skin very rough from spicul®, the 
points of which are directed backward. 
OVUM OF NURSE HOUSE. 
