356 



RECORDS Ob' THE AUSTRALIAN MUSUEM, 



numerous and very close together. Two attendants each carry 

 a bamboo pole, ten or twelve feet long, and with a mop of 

 twisted cocoa-nut fibre at one end. 



The party walk along the beach until they see a shoal within 

 reach, when the two polemen suddenly beat the water with 

 their mops and so frighten the fish into a denser mass. At the 

 same moment the man with the basket dives head-foremost into 



Fig: 54 



their midst and scoops up as ninny as he can, often securing 

 several pounds weight of fish at a time. These are emptied into 

 other baskets carried by the girls of the party, and all then 

 move on to repeat the process a little further along the beach. 



[Since the above was set up I have seen the fourth volume of 

 the " Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to 

 Torus Strait," in which Professor A. C. Haddon describes this 

 method of fishing very fully on p. l- r >. r ) 5 tig 170], 



Sharks (Oarcharias melanopterus, Quoy & Gaimard), four or 

 five feet in length, also prey upon the unfortunate herrings, and 

 on several occasions we saw them strand themselves as they 

 rushed through a shoal which was too close to the edge of the 

 water. 



I have compared one of the types of Harengula stereolepis, 

 Ogilby, with a co-type of //. hunzei, Bleeker, and consider that 

 they are the same species. 1 have tailed, however, to find the 

 palatine teeth mentioned by both Bleeker and Day. and they are 

 wanting in Bleeker's CO-type, The Torres Strait tish as a whole 

 are more slender than the figures of 8. hunzei, but they van 



