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GALEU8. 
Thf. form of the body tapering; spiracles or temporal orifices behind 
the eyes; the gdl openings moderate; an anal fin. Teeth sharp. 
TOPER. 
WHITE HO-UND . PENNY DOG, the yOUDg OUes Called MILLER 
DOG, from their light grey appearance. 
Bqwalus Galeus, 
Oaleus Anstotelia. 
Oanis Oaleus, 
Galeus vulgaris, 
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Sguale Miland/re, 
AllTEDI AND LiKNiEUS. 
JONSTON; p. 25. 
Willoughby; p. 51, tab. b. 6, but the 
tail is badly expressed. 
Fleming; Br. An., p. 165. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 501. 
Yakhell; British Fishes, vol. ii, p. 609. 
Lacepede. Eisso; Ichthy., p. 32. 
This is a common and rapacious fish, devouring any living 
thing It IS able to overcome; but it appears to swim lower in 
the water than the Blue Shark and Porbeagle, as few complaints 
are heard of the injury it inflicts on the fishermen’s nets. 
The young are produced in summer, and I have found them 
well developed so early as in May. The whole brood is usually 
produced at one birth; although I have occasionally met with 
an instance where a few eggs have been ready to take the place 
of a large number that were ready for exclusion. On examining 
a large female, I found twenty-one young ones, all of one size, 
about a foot in length; ten in one receptacle, and eleven in 
the other. The egg attached to each young one, and not yet 
absorbed, was scarcely an inch in diameter, pear-shaped, with 
a funis about six inches in length. The largest number of 
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