. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 504 Zoological Society. In the same copy of Pennant's ' British Zoology ' occurs the follow- ing note and figure, which is here copied two-thirds the size:—. " ' York, March 29, '96.—On Friday last a curious and uncommon fish came on shore at Filey Bay, and was taken by four women ; they sold it to a man who brought it to this city ; it was 13£ feet in length, rather more than one foot in depth, and not more than 3 inches in thickness. Its skin was smooth and of a silver
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 504 Zoological Society. In the same copy of Pennant's ' British Zoology ' occurs the follow- ing note and figure, which is here copied two-thirds the size:—. " ' York, March 29, '96.—On Friday last a curious and uncommon fish came on shore at Filey Bay, and was taken by four women ; they sold it to a man who brought it to this city ; it was 13£ feet in length, rather more than one foot in depth, and not more than 3 inches in thickness. Its skin was smooth and of a silver hue : had no tail, and its fins were the colour of those of the roach or perch. It may be considered as a nondescript, neither Linnaeus, Pennant, or any other writers on Ichthyology having given any description of it.' " This paragraph is cut from the York Chronicle of last Thursday, and the enclosed I traced from a drawing by Dr. Burgh, who penned the paragraph and made the following notes on his ;—J. F. "13 feet long, 1 deep, 3 inches thick; head 7 inches long; eye If diam.; no scales, but very small protuberances, silvered over like the swim of a herring ; these run the whole length in stripes, alternate with others which are bare, and of a light colour. " The dorsal fin runs the whole way from the head to the other end, at which there is no tail. The dorsal fin is red, like that of a roach or perch ; 6 bronchial rays ; dorsal fin 290 and 13 rays ; the pectoral 12 ; ventral 1 ; no anal. No teeth ; a soft tongue. The face and inside of the mouth black. Anus 4 feet 9 inches from the head. Iris a silver-white. He ran on shore at Filey Bay, March 18, 1796 ; was seen by four women, who took him and sold him to a man who brought him to York, where on March21 I saw him. Though there was then no caudal fin, it is not clear that he never had one, for there was an appearance of mutilation in its place. The two sides were precisely alike. The eye in t
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