Queer Creature From The Sea

THIS extraordinary creature, apparently

a kind of ray, was caught recently in the sea off Nauru. Mr. A. P. Lloyd, who kindly supplied the photograph, said: “It looks like a cross between a penguin, a dog and a man up here we all know!”, It was about 30 inches in diameter, and weighed 14 lb. The picture gives its

general shape; but does not show a tail, 36 inches long, with two spikes at the end, which the native fisherman unfortunately had removed. The thing was a stranger to the Nauruans; but some Gilbertese there recognised it as a fish they sometimes found in the Gilberts, and which they called “Te Baiku”.