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5. Soldier-fish. Salt water. One specimen, of small size : has a lively flesh-colour. 

 Is good for the table. {Scorjuena miliiaris.) 



6. Bull-head. Six specimens. Salt water. Hides under stones : colour dark brown, 

 with black spots. Is considered to be unwholesome. 



7. Trout. Fresh water. Six specimens, of the common size : colour dark olive, 

 with red spots ; but some, of a darker colour, will weigh nine ounces. Excellent for the 

 table. (Gala^'ias.) 



8. No local name. One specimen, taken in salt water : colour red, with spots. Tlie 

 only size I have seen. It is remarkable for its crest and seal-like pectoral fins : it is 

 not known whether it be edible or not. There is an imperfect figure of the species in 

 Dr. Ross's ' Annual' for 1835. {Cheironectes politus.) 



9. Trout. One specimen. Fresh water. Differing slightly from No. 7. 



10. Mullet. Salt water. Three specimens, of the common size. Excellent for the 

 table. {Dajaus Diemensis) 



11. Sea Pig. Saltwater. One specimen, of the common size: sometimes hand- 

 somely striped with blue and yellow. {Ostracion.) 



12. No name. Salt water. Two specimens. A rare fish, only four having been 

 caught in five years. Not eaten. Colour brown ; every scale serrated. Sent the skin 

 of one to W. Swainson, Esq. in 1835. {Lepidoleprus australis.) 



13. Salmon. Salt water. Common size : back dark blue ; belly silver}', with yel- 

 low and red spots. Much sought after for the table, and caught in great shoals \vith 

 the seine. [Centropristes salar.) 



14. Nourse's eggs. The eggs of a species of shark. 



15. Silver fish. Saltwater. One specimen, full size : resembles the salmon, but is 

 thicker, and without spots. It is supposed that they migrate, as they are taken only at 

 long intervals : eleven hundred have been caught by the seine in one night. They are 

 equal to the Trumpeter in flavour and richness. 



16. Lobster. Fresh water. Four specimens, of the common size, but they are 

 known to reach the length of nine inches : colour almost black, but boil red : rather 

 strong in flavour. {Cray-fish.) 



17. No name. Salt water : caught swimming on the surface. 



18. Sea Horse. Salt water. One specimen. There are several varieties here, one 

 of them distinguished by its nine tentacula. {Syngnathus.) 



19. Porcupine Fish. Salt water. Two specimens. Wlien first caught the form of 

 this fish is spherical, but it afterwards becomes elongated. [Diodon nicthemerus, Cuv.) 



20. Toad Fish. Saltwater. Specimen common size. Taken in shallows off sandy 

 beaches. Dark brown spots. The natives dread this fish, and several colonists have 

 died from eating it. {Apistes marmoratus.) 



21. Kelp Fish. Salt water. Four specimens, of the common size. When fresh it 



