STUDIES i\ AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



No. 3. * 



By Allan B, McCdlloch, Zoologist. 



(Plates xii.-xx, and figs, 54-55), 



Family CLUPEIDJE. 



Sardinella eunzei, BleeJcer. 



(Plate xii, and figs. 54-55), 



Harengula Jcunzei, Bleeker, Nat. Tyd. Ned. Ind., xii., 1856-7, 

 p. 209, 



Glupea moluccensis, Gunther, Brit, Mas. Cat. Fish, xii., L868 

 p 427 (part). 



Glupea Jclunzei, Day, Fish. Ind., 1878, p. 036, pi, clxiii. fig. 1, 



Glupea (Harengula) Jcunzei, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., vi,, 1870-2, 

 p, 107, pi. cclxiii., fig. 1, 



Harengula stereolepis, Ogilby, Proc, Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 xxii., 1898, p. 759. 



This species is very common at Murray Island, Torres Strait, 

 where it swims in dense shoals in the lagoon. The natives 

 obtain large numbers by simply throwing a three, or four- 

 pronged spear into a mass of them (PI, xii., fig. 1), generally 

 securing several at each throw. They are also captured with 

 small cast-nets which are simply thrown over them as they pass 

 (PI. xii., fig. 3), while a peculiar method of taking them, known 

 as " Werir " (PL xii. fig. 2), was also commonly practised by 

 small parties of natives. In this class of fishing the principal 

 performer carries a cone-shaped basket, called " Weres" (tig. 54), 

 which is formed of split-bamboo ribs held in position by lashings 

 of bamboo bark or fibre. At the open end the ribs are few and 

 widely spaced, but towards the head of the cone they are more 



* For No. 2, see Vol. VII., p. 315. 

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