Zoology.'] 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



[Fiihes. 



Measurements — continued. 



Reference. — Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. 8, t. 219. 



There can be no doubt of the identity of our Australian Barra- 

 couta and that so abundant at the Cape of Good Hope ; and Dr. 

 Richardson's supposed T. alfivelis must, I fancy, be founded on 

 some mistake. The stomach usually contains many small fishes 

 of its own and other species. 



The Barracouta is a tolerably good fish for the table, and is 

 abundant in the waters round the coast in all the colder months of 

 the yeai'. 



Explanation of FionuES. 



Plate 44. — Fig. 1, side view of moderate specimen, one-fifth of the natural size. Fig. la, 

 inside of mouth, showing 2 rows of small palatine teeth, the row of larger teeth on edge of 

 upper jaw not quite reaching the tip, and the small group of very large teeth in front. Fig. lb, 

 teeth of lower jaw, and tongue. 



(N.B. — Figs. \c and \d are scales of the corslet, natural size and magnified, of the Tunny.) 



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