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1 Kershaw, Additions to the Fish Fauna of Victovia. 95 



Top of head and snout, inchiding the region of the eye, nearly 

 black, with bluish reflections. A short, dark streak along the 

 edge of the pre-operculum. Body with five well-defined, dark, 

 transverse bands, extending on to the fins. Base of caudal 

 and lobes blackish, the latter tipped with white, as is also the 

 most anterior and posterior rays of the dorsal, anal, and ventral 

 fins. Pectoral whitish at base, with black tip, corresponding 

 to the body bands, while on the under side, the upper half, 

 embracing the whole length of the longest rays, is black, and the 

 lower half white. 



Family CH^TODONTID^. 



Ch.etodon sexfasciatus. Rich. 



Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x. (1842), p. 26. 

 Giinther, Cat. Fish., ii., p. 35 (i860). 



Three specimens of this fish have been received from Victorian 

 waters — namely, from Mordialloc (Port Phillip Bay), Western 

 Port Bay, and Split Point. The latter was forwarded by Mr. 

 G. T. W. Stevens, then lightkeeper at Split Point lighthouse, 

 from whom I had previously received a sketch of another 

 specimen taken at the same place. 



The original specimen described by Richardson was collected 

 by Gould in Western Australia. The species is also recorded 

 from New South Wales. 



Distribution of Trout. — During the winter over 33,000 

 yearling trout have been distributed by the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, under the superintendence of Major Semmens, Chief 

 Inspector of Fisheries, in various Victorian streams and reser- 

 voirs. Many places were far distant from the hatcheries, and it 

 speaks well for the skill of all concerned that only 89 deaths 

 occurred. 



" Physiography of Eastern Australia." — This publica- 

 tion forms Bulletin No. 8 of the Commonwealth Bureau of 

 Meteorology, Melbourne, and is from the pen of Griffith Taylor, 

 B.Sc, F.G.S., Physiographer to the Bureau. It consists of 

 18 folio pages, with 28 figures, many of which are whole-page 

 maps The author traces the changes which have taken place 

 in the mountains and rivers of eastern Australia since Cretaceous 

 times, and considers the effect of these changes on the positions 

 of the railway systems of the different States, and the relations 

 between contour and rainfall, &c. A previous Bulletin (No. 6) 

 by the same author deals with the physiography of the proposed 

 federal capital at Canberra, and, being well illustrated with 

 maps and diagrams, enables the reader to easily grasp the 

 salient features of the district, which has an elevation of about 

 2,000 feet above sea-level. 



