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Show FAIL TO AGREE AS TO GIANT RAY i Naturalists Divided in Opinion Concerning Con-cerning Structural Makeup of Monster Fih. The great devilfish or giant ray, which abounds in the waters around Beaufort, S. C, and Captlva Inlet. Fla., has occasionally been found off New York and New Jersey. The furthest fur-thest north it has ever been taken 's Block islnnd, where one was caught last venr. This wns 14 feet wide between the tips of the pectoral fins. 7 feet long from heod to base of tall, and weighed l.flSO pounds. Tins is the only specimen known to hare been weighed, but there are stories of fish that are said to have weighed 10.000 pounds. Dr. E. W. Guilger of the American Museum of Natural Hifrr writes ot f , the glnnt ray In Science, and says that naturalists who have described It differ as to whether It has a large spine or sttng on Its tall. The one caught at Block Island had none, but there was a wound on the tall where a spine was snld to have been torn off. The late Theodore Gill, dean of American Ichthyologists, doubted the spine, as have oth-r writers, although some naturalists picture It with one. |