ttAMMER-HEAD. 
his testimony ’Jith T •‘° Lacepede unites 
finding the mention of thi” fith w of T^ of dnnate, without 
suffered from it. ^ ^hey have 
b JS i'".::: -r:-, t-^ 
the White or Eke Shark, would t‘t o,“‘® f®~'’ 
seem, probable that the nature of It, fi t “"'* ‘‘ 
indlscriBmate kind a. their, i, knoL to be “ ”°‘ 
a few exa“p”eTa“‘'orr«ord oTk”"’ “ °" “'f 
Island.; which thcreforr . m the British 
of its raiio-e Besides the^ P^o a ly the most northern limit 
the skeleton if p " .d k hTt' ‘"'““r”'*’ 
at Penzance, an’other was taken ^“7 " f ““‘"P 
1829, and a third at Tenby in Wal the year 
Yarrcll, and the latter alio by ll w “f' 
Fauna of Swansea.” This ]a<st i in his 
August was found to contain thirtr^^'^^ “ 
exclusion. Mr. Lowe found this £h7nTT-°''"® 
«ays It IS not uncommon in the mL 
September. -'Itditerranean from July to 
In the month of November y* 
■a Cornwall, „„ hauling thelr nel i„„Tf f^NewIyn. 
0 . Balance shark; and fr'em IhHIl 1 ^■‘’ «™'»«-head, 
hut poo, ly preserved, ll.e followiig de.crhnbf ofTh'"'"’ 
IS derived:— The length of the n« .1 ^ ^ ®Pccies 
an inch less than ten feet; girth of"the''r'r^t example was 
iaches; the head slightly fe’stf^ld /„ tn^ hit t 
three feet; an eye at each extremity of tb’ ^ 
as that of an ox. The nostrils al tie a 
expansion, not far from the eyes A 
across this expansion of the head bei lies 
orbital processes of the skull Th ®lt>"gation of the 
1-e-shoe, with three rows f tee I TThe ^ 
reetti m the upper jaw, and 
