98 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



ou a trip to the head waters of the Noosa River. The aim of the expedition was 

 to test the possibilities of procuring from this source a sufficient quantity of 

 Golden Perch (I'lcctroplitcs anthiguKf:)' to stock the new Gold Creek Eeservoir. 

 I may here i-emark parenthetically that, though we were successful in catching 

 quite a number of these excellent fishes by trolling with a spoon-bait, we failed 

 tc bring any of them alive to Brisbane, a heavy thunderstorm which broke 

 over the camp on the last night of our stay being doubtless a potent cause of 

 their untimely decease. These and a single Long-finned Eel {Anguilla 

 rciuhardtii)'^ constituted the entire produce of our hook and line fishing. On 

 arrival at the forks of the Upper Noosa, beyond which navigation is impossible, 

 we noticed tliat the launch was qxuckly surrounded by numbers of small, high- 

 swimming fishes. A few, a very few, of these, for they were lightning-quick 

 in their movements, we managed to catch through the agency of some bread- 

 crumbs and a small landing-net. They proved to be Crimson-spotted Sunfishes 

 {Mehinoiania fitzroiicnsis)'-' and Queensland Smelts {Rctropinna sononi)'' in 

 the proportion of about three to one, thus adding another locality to the range 

 of the latter interesting anadrom. On our way homewards we noticed a violent 

 commotion in the water under an overhanging bank, and on investigating with a 

 ])addle we had the good luck to pick up four large and healthy River Jew- 

 fishes (Tandanus ta)idanus) j^" the marriage ceremonies of which we had thus 

 cruelly and wantonly interrupted. The trip through the water systems of the 

 Lower and Upper Noosa and across Lakes Cooroiba and Cootharaba is most 

 enjoyal)le, the scenery everywhere beautiful and romantic, wild and solitary; 

 it can he earnestly recommended to anyone in searcli of health or pleasure. 

 The clearness of tlie water in the upper reaches was responsible for a most 

 exquisite and faithful reproduction of each leaf and bough of the overhanging 

 trees, even the delicate fronds of the fragile "climbing maidenhair"" being 

 photographed reversedly with a vivid intensity almost unbelievable, bringing 

 back to one's mind Woi-dsworth 's well-nigh forgotten duplicate swan. 



MONOPTERID^. 



MONOPTERUS ? ALBUS (/uicw) ■ = 



During last .Iiiiie I received from my good friend Mr. James Palmer 

 of Cowan Cowan, Moreton Bay, a small but most interesting collection of fishes 

 obtained by him at that place, it consisted of a very large Nomeus gronovii 



' DuUs amhiquua Richardson, Zool. Erebus & Terror, ii, 184-4, Fish., p. 2fi, pi. xix. 



• Stoindacliner, Sitz. Akad. Wieii, Iv, 1S67, p. 1.'). 



• ArisleuH filzroycnsis Ca.stolnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, iii, 1878, p. HI. 



" Plotonua (Tandanua) tandanus Mitchell, Exp. Int. East. Auslr., ed. 2, i, 1838, p. 95, 

 pi. V, fig. 2. 



" Ly<jodium a^amkns (Swartz) Bailey, Queensl. Flora, vi, 1902, p. 1934. 



" Murwria alba Zuicw, Nov. Act. Acad. Sci. IVlrnpnI., vii, 1797, p. 299, pi. vii, fig. 2. 



