the sea wolf. 
The teeth of this fiih are frequently dug up in a pe- 
trified ftate, where they are called bufonites, or toad- 
ftones ; formerly they were much efleemed for their i- 
maginary virtues } they were fometimes fct in gold, and 
" T orn as jewels *; the teeth of three large fiflies of this 
ipecies, were feen at Scarborough, every one of which 
"'ere either broken or disfigured by the hard fubftances 
"hich thefe animals had attempted to macerate f . 
Both the dorfal and anal fins of this fiih extend almeit 
to the tail, which is round at the end, and ftiengthened 
by fourteen rays ; the pectoral fins refemble two fmall 
"'mgs, being about five inches long, by feven broad. 
Bhe food of the wolf fiih is cruftaceous fifties, the ihells of 
"'hich it can eafily comminute. Thefe animals are ovi- 
parous ; and their young, for fome time after their pro- 
fiu&ion from the egg, are of a greeniili call, refembling 
‘fie f ea weeds among which they then refide ; fome of 
‘fiem have been caught in the Frith of Forth. 
* -Britiil; Zool. 
f Willough, p. 130. 
