Zoology.} 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



l^Fishet, 



The following are the measurements of 5 specimens in the 

 National Museum from the Victorian coasts, varying from 5 feet 

 10 inches to 18^ inches in length : — 



To give a clearer idea of the jiroportions indicated by the above 

 measurements, they are approximately reduced in the following 

 table to fractious of the total length, taking that in each case as 

 100. The near identity in most respects, and the comparatively 

 smaller size of the eye and head in the largest specimen, will strike 

 the attention at once in this way ; the latter being a general 

 characteristic difference between old and young individuals to 

 which I have often drawn attention in other fishes, where a neglect 



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