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PAINTED RAY. 
SMALL-EYED KAY. 
Baia miorocdlaia, Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 171. 
“ •* Jenyns; Manual, p. 515. 
« « Takkell; Br. FisBes, vol. ii, p. 567. 
>< •« Gkay; Catalogue Br. Museum, p. 109. 
The length of a specimen was thirty-three inches and a 
half, of which the tail measured thirteen; breadth twenty-four 
inches. The eyes three inches asunder, and five and a half 
from the snout. In general form it resembles the Thornback. 
Along the tail is a border on each side, like a membranous 
fin; the two fins separate, the hindmost an inch from the end. 
Eyes very small, spiracles large. The body covered with 
rough grains, but without spines, except that a row runs 
along two thirds of the length of the back, and on the 
middle of the tail to the fins; an irregular row of hooked 
spines along each side of the tail. Nostrils with a prominent 
expanded membrane. idth of the mouth three inches; teeth 
flat, like those of the Thornback. 
There is much beauty in the distribution of the colour. The 
upper surface is a light grey, with a line of lighter colour 
from the back along the tail, enclosing the central low of 
spines; and the disk is regularly divided, first by three lines 
enclosing each other, passing from near the eye circulaily to 
near the expansion of the pectoral fins, with the convexity inward, 
and consequently the shortest line nearest the border. On the 
hindward border of the pectorals are two other lines, which pass 
from behind the expansion circularly to the neighbouihood of 
the abdominal fins, the convexity also being inwards. Within 
these segments are several brown spots and streaks, and a 
few whitish spots, answering to each other on both sides; and 
