98. NOTES ON EXHIBiTS 
My next exhibits consist of specimens of small fresh- 
water fishes belonging to the family Gobiide, subfamily 
Eleotrine. These are chiefly remarkable in having been 
participators in the recent aerial escapade reported in the 
‘‘ Telegraph,” where it was stated that during a heavy 
thunder-storm they came down alive in large numbers on 
Mildura Farm, Cooper’s Plain’s, last Monday; these 
specimens were in excellent condition, one in fact having 
survived its perilous journey through the air, and even 
more perilous journey corked up in a small medicine 
bottle for twelve hours in its captor’s pocket. I may 
here state that though I have frequently read of 
these ‘“‘showers of fishes,” this is only the second au- 
thentic instance which has come directly under my notice, 
the earlier of these being a couple of specimens in poor con- 
dition sent from Killarney to the State Museum by our 
late Premier, the Hon.’Arthur Morgan. These belonged to 
quite a different species from the Cooper’s Plains’ fishes, 
being examples of the pretty little Carp-Gudgeon (Caras- 
siops compressus, Ogilby), so common in all the creeks and 
water holes in the vicinity of Brisbane. And here I should 
like to direct your attention to the two very dissimilar forms 
of this fish which exist in Southern Queensland. The 
typical form, originally described by Krefft, from the 
Clarence River, is a short, stout fish, livingin sluggish, muddy 
creeks and swamps, and said to bury itself in the mud when 
pursued, as it habitually does during the winter months ; 
the second form is long, slender, and half-starved in appear- 
ance, so that, if it were not for the absolute s milarity of 
such structural charaters as the fin-formula and lepidosis 
as well as of the pattern of coloration, it might easily be 
taken for quite a distinct species ; it may conveniently be 
separated as C. c. montanus. To this latter form 
(exhibit D) the Killarney examples belong, and, as I am in- 
formed by my friend Mr. Joseph Lamb, this variety is only 
found in the head waters of the Condamine, while in the 
low-lying lands, near the coast only the robust form occurs. 
Difference of food and environment alone can account 
for this diss milarity. 
The species, which forms the text of the present com- 
munication, belongs to another section of the same group 
