CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Page. 



General definition of Fishes The principal parts of a Fish 



The Teeth The Air-Bladder The Eyes The Tongue -The 

 Skeleton The Fins The Scales The Lateral-Line Barbels 

 Colouration Breeding Habits and Eggs Australian Fishes 

 producing Pelagic Eggs The Classification of Fishes Table of 

 Classification of Australian Fishes i 



CHAPTER II. 



The Giant Herrings The Osteoglossid-s The Dorab The 

 Herring Family The Salmon Family The Alepocephaloids 

 Stomiatoid Fishes The Beaked Salmon The Carp Family The 

 Catfish Family 23 



CHAPTER III. 



The Little Shore-Eels The True Eels The Australian Min- 

 nows The "Grayling" Family The Scopeloids The Lancet- 

 Fishes Notacanthoid Fishes The Fierasferoids Flute-Mouths 

 or Tobacco-Pipe Fishes Bellows-Fishes or Sea-Snipes Sea- 

 Horses and Pipe-Fishes Sea-Dragons 43 



CHAPTER IV. 



Long-Toms, Garfishes and Flying-Fishes The Hardyhead 

 Family The Mullet Family Threadfins or Tassel-Fishes The 

 Pike Family 64 



CHAPTER V. 



Cuvier's Square-Tail The Whario Family The Grenadiers 

 or Whiptails The Cod Family The Nannygai Family Knight 

 Fishes Bull's-eyes Centrarchoid Fishes The Blackfish Family 

 The Triple-tails Rifle -! ishes The Perch Family 84 



