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ouce put it aside for my inspeetion. The fish was takeu iu the Coomei'a River by 

 Messrs. Brady Bros, on the 14th inst., and is the first recorded instance of its 

 occurreaee in Australian waters. 



SI'ARID.E. 

 SPARUS BERDA Foiskal." 

 On tlie 24th inst., wlien paying my weekly visit to the Fish Market, I was 

 shown a small bream, which had been taken along with the ordinary species at 

 Caloundra, and was surprised and delighted to recognize in it a representative 

 of the northern "pikey bream," of which the most southerly previous record was 

 that of ilaeleay from tlie Lower Burdekin. Possibly the species may not be so 

 rare as is supposed, but has been confounded with the common bream (S. 

 austraUs) .** From this and the tarwhine {S. sarba)*^ it is at once distinguish- 

 able by the great size and strength of the second anal spine, which has suggested 

 the vernacular name here employed. 



sco:mbbtdj;. 



GRAMMATORYCNUS BICARINATUS (Quoy & Gaimard)." 



During the first week of August, when paying a visit to the State Fish 

 Market, I was shown a specimen of this fish, weighing 30 lb., which was caught in 

 the Bay in company with .School Jlackerel {Scomheromorus spp.) 



TTRANORCOPID^. 

 ICHTHYSCOPUS LEBECK (Schneider)." 



To Mr. J. Tait, of Tewantin, the Museum is indebted for an exceptionally 

 large example of this "stargazer, " measuring 542 mm. in total length. On 

 opening it the stomach was found to be filled to repletion with the remains of 

 other fishes, some of which, on the evidence of the bones, must have been of 

 considerable size. The specimen was a female, and the ovaries contained eggs in 

 an advanced stage of maturity. These are exceedingly small for the size of the 

 fish, so much so that I considered it worth while attempting to compute the 

 number of ova about to be shed by this specimen. The mass of eggs weighed 

 exactly 7 oz., and by carefvdlj' removing a portion weighing one sixty-fourth of 

 an ounce (3 grs.), and washing this out until each ovum became separated from 

 its fellows, I arrived by careful counting at 1,160 eggs for the 3 grs., which when 

 multiplied by 448 gives the astonishing total of 519,680. Mr. Longman, who 

 made his calculations by a somewhat different method to that employed by me, 

 arrived at a total of slightly under half a million, a diiferenee cpiite inappreciable 

 when dealing with figiires of such magnitude. 



" Descr. Anim., 177.5, p. 32. See also remarks under S. latus by Jordan & Thompson, 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xli, 1912, p. 585-6. 



** Chrysophrys australis Giinther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., i, 1859, p. 494. 



*^ Forskal, ibid., p. 31. See remarks under S. aries by Jordan & Thompson, ibid., p. 483. 



« See p. 101 antea. 



" Uranoscopus lebeck Schneider, in Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 47. 



